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Thieu is also disturbed by the growing popularity in the Assembly of the "third force" idea, revived in November by dovish Senator Tran Van Don and General Duong Van (Big) Minh. Though never precisely defined, the phrase-a familiar one to old Viet Nam hands-envisions a regime that is completely accountable to neither the Communists nor the Americans but is acceptable to both. Thieu is understandably convinced that, whatever shape a third-force government might take, it would exclude him-and he is determined to keep the idea from gaining momentum. His campaign is not limited to the legislature...
...partly also in their residual admiration for part of America. This is an admiration, first of all, for that part of America which through President Wilson called for the acceptance of the XIV Points after World War I, especially with respect to national self-determination, which Ho Chi Minh hoped could be implemented for Indochina through him when as a young French socialist he sought admission at Versailles. It is a fleeting admiration, also, for that part of America in the midst of World War II (when the French were out of Indochina and when Ho Chi Minh's communist...
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Many of the Communists' civilian victims died singly or in small groups, as the Viet Cong sought to exterminate effective local leaders loyal to the government in Saigon. In 1960, Father Hoang Ngoc Minh, a popular Kontum parish priest, was ambushed by Viet Cong who drove bamboo spears through his body, then machine-gunned him to death. In 1961, the Viet Cong shot and killed two Vietnamese National Assemblymen near...
...taken on more and more of the ceremonial duties of the Foreign Minister during the past year. Meanwhile Chen Yi, who still holds the title of Foreign Minister, has all but faded from view. Last September, Li headed Peking's delegation to the funeral of Ho Chi Minh. Since Ho was a particular friend of Peking, Li's rank was significant. A few days later, he was in the group that met Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at Peking Airport. Last month Li was the first Chinese official to make a statement on Richard Nixon's major address...