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Previously, infiltrators from the North, sent down via the Ho Chi Minh Trail, were mostly drawn from 90,000 Southerners who had moved North after Viet Nam's partition in 1954 and had been trained by the Communists. These are now either too old for the tough guerrilla life or have been used up in the war to date. Thus most of the new arrivals from Hanoi are young North Vietnamese draftees. Of the 7,400 Viet Cong who entered the South last year, fully 75% were natives of North Viet...
...Ministry of Defense to six military regions in South Viet Nam corresponding to the political units. The beefed-up Viet Cong hard core is composed of 50 "Main Force" battalions, overseen by five regimental headquarters (compared to two in 1961). Political and military control are synchronized, giving Ho Chi Minh "assurance of political control over the military"-something his coup-happy opponents to the South must envy...
...visible instigator of last week's events was one Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao, a Catholic with a checkered political career-he fought with the Communist Viet Minh under Ho Chi Minh, now President of North Viet Nam, then swung to the right, served briefly as a public-relations man for General Nguyen Khanh after Khanh seized power a year ago. One day last week, troops appeared in the streets of Saigon, and Colonel Thao popped out of a tank turret, explaining: "This operation is to expel Nguyen Khanh from the government." With Thao was Catholic ex-General...
...November 9th Committee feel that the present war in Vietnam represents continuation of the efforts of the Viet Minh, a Community-controlled organization, to take control of this country; this war commenced formally in 1946. The balance in that war only really shifted to the Viet Minh as a result of crucial aid from Communist China. The partitioning of Vietnam as a result of the Geneva Accord of 1954 did not end that war, for the Viet Minh continued its hold on large areas in the South. We say it is basically this group, now called Viet Cong, which...
...Administration could send a mission to Hanoi to find out just what concessions can be won from Ho Chi Minh. The U.S. has some strong bargaining points; ever since Vietnam has been split up, the North has suffered from agricultural shortages which can only be remedied by drawing on the giant rice fields in the South. Furthermore, Ho has not yet aligned himself with the Peking Communist bloc, and there is evidence that he might welcome the chance to end the war and use U.S. aid to make his nation less dependent on a threatening China...