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...Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, who spent nine days last January visiting North Viet Nam with Miami News Editor Bill Baggs. In a 15,000-word article in the center's bimonthly magazine, Ashmore claimed that North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh took a "deliberately conciliatory" line during a two-hour talk and "seemed prepared to consider a specific proposal based on mutual de-escalation." But Ashmore claimed that a sub sequent attempt to explore this opening with a letter to Ho from himself and Baggs was "effectively and brutally canceled" by a tough...
...intervention that they are able to carry on with stolen and imported weapons and men against the most sophisticated weaponry that U.S. money can buy. "Hatred" doesn't fit; "respect" might be closer to the mark. It might be easier to work up some fear of Ho Chi Minh if he were leading a platoon of Viet Cong down the main street of Honolulu...
...other hand, by breaking with the President without offering a closely reasoned alternative, said Dirksen, "you only strengthen Ho Chi Minh's determination to hang on. That's been the trouble right along...
...long essay The Rebel. In that company, Koningsberger is hopelessly out of place; what is more, his character is also out of date. A.'s home is an imaginary European country, not Africa or Asia, where the action is. Furthermore, A. is totally unversed in Mao, Ho Chi Minh or Che Guevara, who are far more relevant in the current revolutionary situations than the drawing-room Marx that A. and his friends are apt to spout...
Thieu was neither stupid nor sentimental in the field. In 1954, promoted to major, he found himself leading an attack on the Viet Minh in his own village, Ninh Chu. The Communists retreated into Thieu's old home, confident that he would not fire on his own house. Says Thieu with grim satisfaction: "I shot in my own house." The only cause for criticism the young officer ever gave his superiors was an innate caution that made him less aggressive than they sometimes would have preferred-a reluctance to commit his troops to battle unless he felt absolutely sure...