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...base for war and subversion against the rest of Southeast Asia. It is under Hanoi's direction that the Communist Viet Cong wage their guerrilla war in South Viet Nam, aided by men and matériel smuggled from the North down the famed Ho Chi Minh Trail, which is named for North Viet Nam's longtime Red ruler. But despite its aggressive stance, the Red North is beset by serious internal troubles. Last week, amid streamers and red lanterns, wispy-chinned President Ho Chi Minh himself strode into polling station No. 24 in his dismal capital...
...pilot-and simultaneously lobbed .81-mm. Red Chinese-made mortars into Mocay itself. But the government got in its own licks, several times counterattacked with refreshing aggressiveness. On a forested ridge near the Laotian border, troops overran a Viet Cong staging camp for infiltrators coming down the Ho Chi Minh trail from Laos, claimed 75 enemy dead...
...threw himself into a fight for total freedom. First, Sihanouk took the field as a general and helped lead Cambodian troops against the Viet Minh Communist guerrillas from North Viet Nam then trying to get a toe hold in Cambodia. Strapping on a Colt .45 and donning an Aussie hat, the young King commanded half a company of Cambodian troops, shared field rations, slept in a pitched tent...
...that North Viet Nam does not have its troubles. Ho Chi Minh's Communist Lao Dong party is divided between its pro-Moscow and pro-Peking factions, and "Uncle" Ho has his hands full keeping things in balance. Rice rations were trimmed last month for the third time in a year, sugar grows increasingly short, meat is a luxury available only to the army and select workers -and then a ration of only three-quarters of a pound per week. Even coal and steel production, of which Hanoi was once so proud, is lagging. And though Ho Chi Minh...
...countries. Cambodia's Prince Norodom ("Snookie") Sihanouk had just tried to hold similar border talks with North Viet Nam-an interesting endeavor, in view of the fact that Cambodia has no border with North Viet Nam, only South Viet Nam. Apparently rebuffed by a mystified Ho Chi Minh, Sihanouk protested that Hanoi's Reds had been "as vague as the Anglo-Saxons." But that did not necessarily make him any friendlier toward the South Vietnamese delegates...