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...event last week was a three-day celebration of both the Communist victory and the birthday of Ho Chi Minh. All schools, hospitals and families displayed pictures of Ho as well as flags of the Provisional Revolutionary Government and North Viet Nam. Hanoi dispatched a prestigious delegation to take part in the festivities, including Politburo Member Le Due Tho and North Vietnamese President Ton Due Thang. Also making their first appearances in Saigon since the Communist victory were civilian leaders like non-Communist Nguyen Huu Tho, chairman of the P.R.G. Advisory Council...
Marton joined the Army during Christmas 1968 after flunking out of Westehester State University in Pennsylvania because, he says. "I was looking for adventure." After four months of infantry duty--"mostly assaults on Viet Cong way stations along the Ho Chi Minh trail," he says--in Bin Ding province in the Central Highlands, Marton had a "bellyful of adventure" and began to develop an interest in the politics of the Vietnam...
...sure whether he was a spy or not. He never talked to us about conditions in the prison. Most people didn't. The guerilla war was a bad period. Almost everyone in my father's generation fought in the guerilla war. Initially they fought the French under Ho Chi Minh. He was a mild Communist in those days, until he asked the U.S. for help and the U.S. came in on the side of the French. Ho then changed his attitudes, and went to extremes to attract people to his movement...
...week after the new Revolutionary Government in Chi Minh City began the arduous task of rebuilding and reunifying a nation ravaged by decades of anti-colonial and civil wars. President Ford held a press conference, where UPI reporter Helen Thomas asked him to discuss the lessons of Vietnam. Ford seemed miffed by the question. "It was sad and tragic in many respects," he responded, with no apparent sense of understatement. "I think it would be unfortunate for us to rehash allegations as to individuals that might be to blame, or administrations that might be at fault...
...moment, the Pendleton refugees were those drawn from the social and intellectual elite. In one of the eight refugee compounds, there were no fewer than 50 medical doctors among the 900 inhabitants. Some had worked for U.S. firms that arranged their evacuation. Others, like Teacher Van Ming Minh, escaped with the help of women who were either married to or going steady with American officials...