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...negotiations, Hanoi has not budged from the position staked out by Ho Chi Minh in a letter to Johnson last February, when he categorically refused to consider talks until the U.S. "unconditionally" halted its bombing of the North and "all other acts of war." Until the 1968 presidential returns are in, Hanoi is unlikely to soften that stand...
...took 38 provinces to bolster the lead he piled up in the cities of Dalat, Vung Tau and Cam Ranh. In the process, Ky was an invaluable running mate. Out in the countryside, only two Vietnamese political figures are likely to be known by the peasants: Ho Chi Minh and Nguyen Cao Ky. By no means rare was the peasant on election day who, when asked if he had voted for Thieu, adamantly shook his head and said that he had voted...
When the French came back in 1945, Thieu, like so many of his countrymen, chose patriotism over ideology and enlisted in the Viet Minh, the forerunners of the Viet.Cong. He was a district chief, but his awakening came quickly: "By August of 1946, I knew the Viet Minh were Communists. They shot people. They overthrew the village committee. They seized the land." Thieu decided that the Communists were Viet Nam's real enemy, and he sneaked off to Saigon. There he tried the merchant marine and won an officer's rating, but he turned down a billet...
...Chicken Vendor. The French were just then opening up their first officer class for the newly created Vietnamese army. Thieu enlisted and graduated at 26 with a second lieutenant's commission and orders to take command of an infantry platoon in the Delta. It was Viet Minh country, and the platoon got a hostile reception. For two weeks, the peasants would not even sell it any food. Then one day the Viet Minh mortared Thieu's little camp. After the bombardment, an old man suddenly appeared with eggs and chickens to sell. "I knew why he had come...
They may have been going all out to refute the contention that airpower has its limits in Viet Nam. Or demonstrating to the skeptical back home that there is no stalemate over North Viet Nam. Or warning Ho Chi Minh on the eve of the South Vietnamese elections that a willingness to negotiate should not be mistaken for any weakening of resolve. Whatever the reason, American fighter-bombers ranged up and down the vital railroad links between Hanoi and China last week, dispatching box cars, bridges and marshaling yards with lethal efficiency. Other sorties hit army barracks, antiaircraft emplacements...