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Chang Wen-chin, director of the foreign ministry's American, Western European and Australasian sections. Chang has served as Ambassador to Pakistan and as head of the ministry's Asian section. He accompanied Chou to the 1954 Geneva negotiations on Indochina. Moscow-educated, he is also fluent in English and has served as Chou's English-language interpreter. He is likely to head the ministry's new North American department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Supporting Cast in Peking | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...Central Government, with the good Maoist expectation that by winning the support of the rural population it could eventually isolate and overwhelm the cities. The "first outstanding feature...of People's Revolutionary War, as developed by Mao Tse-tung and refined by the North Vietnamese in the two Indochina wars." Sir Robert Thompson argued in a recent issue of this journal, "is its immunity to the direct application of mechanical and conventional power." In the light of recent events, this statement needs to be seriously qualified. For if the "direct application of mechanical and conventional power" takes place on such...

Author: By Samuel P. Huntington, | Title: Viet Nam: The Bases of Accommodation | 2/22/1972 | See Source »

...Impact. Repeatedly, Nixon and Kissinger have stressed that no deals affecting third countries will be made in Peking. That applies only in a limited sense. To be sure, the Indochina war will not be settled in Peking. China lacks both the inclination and the influence to force a settlement on Hanoi. In a broader sense, however, a Sino-American understanding about the future of the war and of Southeast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECIAL SECTION: A Guide to Nixon's China Journey | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...into an incipient urban slum, a vast garbage heap, and a burnt-out case of political and military folly, Griffiths follows the lead of Graham Greene, who more than 15 years ago, in The Quiet American, wrote what is still the most prescient book about the U.S. intervention in Indochina. Greene's American, it may be recalled, was well-intentioned and high-minded in a peculiarly tenacious and disastrous way. But his real problem was complete ignorance of historic cause and effect, of the Vietnamese language and culture, and above all a lack of understanding about what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: WHAM! | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...China from a position of strength, and his desperate need to appease right-wing hardliners at home. To support these goals, he continues to sacrifice the lives and property of Vietnames freedom fighters and civilians, and prolongs an immoral struggle against the forces of genuine self-determination in Indochina. How much of Nixon and Kissinger's revelations on secret negotiations can be trusted should be indicated by Thieu's subsequent reservations and his reiteration of the three "no's": no coalition, no neutrality, and no Communist government for South Vietnam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bloody Path to China | 2/19/1972 | See Source »

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