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...Vietnamese in rooting out the NVA, who reportedly were being guided and fed by Hué students. In the twisting alleyways of the old city, digging out the Communists turned out to be a tough task. After two days of combat, President Thieu phoned ARVN I Corps Commander Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam and demanded that he get Hué back in allied hands?and "get it back fast...
...hiding is no longer enough; so wide-ranging is Allied surveillance and so swift U.S. response with air strikes, artillery and helilifted soldiers that few safe spots remain to the Communists in South Viet Nam. As a result, Hanoi's new commander in the field, Lieut. General Hoang Van Thai, has been forced to adopt a different strategy. U.S. analysts in Saigon have dubbed it the strategy of the periphery. In plain terms, it is hit-and-run for the nearest border-Laos, Cambodia or North Viet Nam -where the lethal arm of U.S. power cannot pursue. The result...
Traditionally, the Vietnamese authority forms a structure in which the Emperor (Hoang De) sits on top. He was the Son of Heaven (Thien Tu) who carried with him the "mandate of heaven" (Thien Mang) and was the supreme agent of the emperor of Heaven and Earth (Thueng De). For this reason he declared himself responsible for all the misfortunes afflicting his nation, whether they be war, famine, or any other catastrophe, since these are "thien tai" (disasters from heaven). At such a time he had to pacify the "anger from the palace of heaven" (tran loi dinh) by confessing...
...found this so attractive that it rotated the 288 jobs among some 2,000 of its members. And when the temporary, four-month contracts expired, the union decided that Newport was far too good a thing to let go. As the Dock Workers Union's Secretary-General Nguyen Hoang Tan put it: "The Saigon River ports belong to the Vietnamese dockers. It has always been so, under the French and also the Japanese. Why should the Americans be able to change...
Trip Postponed. As if that weren't enough, the Premier was next challenged by an angry delegation of Catholics headed by fiery Father Hoang Quynh. Quynh was burning over Quat's arrests of Catholics following last month's "coup attempt" (TIME, May 28). He was particularly incensed at Quat's contention that the Catholics had been in league with the Viet Cong in the plot. "Such a claim is ridiculous," Quynh snapped, "since Catholics would never work with Communists...