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...force. Neighboring Laos shares that unhappy distinction, despite the fact that, under the Geneva accords of 1962, no foreign forces are permitted in the neutralist Elephant Kingdom of 3,000,000 people. From the very beginning, Hanoi broke that agreement by routing the main part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos. Now the North is stepping up its attacks on the Royal Lao government itself, hitting with force up and down the length of the narrow nation...
...Some bars have changed the name of the drink guzzled by the bar girls from "Saigon tea" to "Saigon-Hanoi tea." Many of the girls, mindful of Viet Cong retribution for consorting with Americans, now alter the traditional toast, chin-chin-to your health-to chin-chin, Ho Chi Minh. They also bring a change of clothing to work so that they can slip out of their conspicuous B-girl tight pants and into the traditional flowing Ao-Dais for the evening trip home to the suburbs...
...from doing some long-range planning and construction. While crisis solidifies its war-time authority, the DLD has been quietly laying the foundations for North Vietnam's post-war society. Surprisingly, its blueprint does not involve a tightening of central reigns. In the past three years, Ho Chi Minh has steadily decentralized almost every aspect of North Vietnamese life, scattering industry and schools throughout the caves, jungles, and villages of the North's back-country. Limited decision-making power is sifting down to local cadre...
...important features of the new program may survive the war. The regime's new policy of encouraging local initiative is firmly in line with Mao Tse-tung's ideas on winning mass support and utilizing it most effectively. While not an ideologue by any means, Ho Chi Minh is well aware of the value of many of the Chairman's techniques (the DLD party statutes specifically encourage the study of the "thoughts of Mao Tse-tung"), and this seems to be one idea he's adopted as a long-range objective...
...Committee on American Policy Toward Viet Nam, among other antiwar groups, argues that the two Viet Nams were artificially separated by the 1954 Geneva accords, and that the separation amounts to nothing but a legal fiction. Hull and Novogrod point out that in 1946, "the French recognized Ho Chi Minh's 'Republic of Viet Nam' (covering Viet Nam north of the 16th parallel) as a free state." As for South Viet Nam, it had been accepted by a majority of the U.N. General Assembly as a "peace-loving state" and would have been admitted to membership...