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...Iran, Taiwan and South Korea, into South Viet Nam in an effort to give the ARVN more muscle before a cease-fire goes into effect. The Communists are trying equally hard to beat the deadline by rushing troop reinforcements and as much materiel as possible down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Neither side wants to be at a disadvantage when the dance ends and the fire goes...
...impending settlement has touched off a scramble by both sides to funnel as much equipment as possible to their forces In South Viet Nam before peace breaks out. The U.S. estimates that large amounts of war matériel were moving down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in September and that the flow has increased noticeably in recent weeks. The U.S., too, is taking the utmost advantage of the delay in Paris, rushing to South Viet Nam equipment already authorized and funded by Congress for next year. Explains one Pentagon official: "The agreement allows for one replacement [for each piece...
...Front in 1960. An independent-minded hardliner, Le Duan resisted pressures to run the war along either Soviet or Chinese lines, proclaiming instead the "creative nature" of the Vietnamese revolution. Western analysts consider him the first among equals in the Hanoi leadership-the de facto successor to Ho Chi Minh...
Many of Thieu's opponents sense his political weakness, and rumors of a coup are circulating for the first time in a year. Who could succeed Thieu? One name often mentioned is that of General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"), who is a former chief of state. Other possibilities: former Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky; Au Truong Thanh, a former high official who was exiled to Paris in 1968 as a neutralist; Nguyen Van Huyen, president of the South Viet Nam Senate; Tran Thien Khiem, the country's Premier; and Tran Van Tuyen, an anti-Thieu member of the South...
...many years before the divisions in Viet Nam?caused by history, the blood debts of the war, internal political disputes and regional differences?can be surmounted. There are also some rivalries between Hanoi and the Viet Cong, and these splits have been aggravated since the death of Ho Chi Minh. The Communists no longer have a single father figure to guide and inspire them...