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Privately, Minh and his advisers admit that elections may never take place. They would thus accept a government consisting of Communists, neutralists and token anti-Communists that would undoubtedly be dominated by the pro-Communist P.R.G. Nobody in Minh's camp believes that the Communists can be denied the lion's share of power, but a few believe that a political settlement will enable the non-Communists to exert some influence. "You can hope to have a solution that will give an opportunity to the non-Communist side to prepare for a new life," says a Minh adviser. "Forming...
...complete military victory would create problems for the Communists," says a close associate of Big Minh. "Problems of stability, problems of security, political problems. It is much better for them if the first step is by political solution." Even if Big Minh manages to get negotiations started, however, the Communists could still launch limited or even all-out attacks around Saigon as a reminder to the new "third force" government of who was really in control. One likely target would be Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport, the scene of the ongoing evacuation of both Americans and Vietnamese...
...considered most likely to take charge of dismantling the Saigon regime was one of that regime's principal architects: General Duong Van ("Big") Minn. Nearly twelve years ago, Minh helped usher in the period of South Vietnamese history that is now rushing to a close. He and a group of fellow officers began it all by toppling the unpopular, autocratic President Ngo Dinh Diem. If Minh is now chosen to preside over the transfer of effective political power to the Communists, it will be largely for one reason: the past dozen years have left him relatively untainted by either...
...Minh, 59, has long been one of South Viet Nam's most durable and well-liked leaders. A southerner, born in My Tho, 35 miles southwest of Saigon, and a Buddhist, he was educated in a French lycee and served in the French colonial army. He was once a student of President Tran Van Huong, whom he generally addresses by the respectful term "Master." Imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II, Minh had half of his teeth yanked out by torturers. He now wears a bridge...
Under the Diem regime, Minh gained renown as a brave "soldier's soldier" in the campaign he led in the 1950s against the notorious Binh Xuyen bandits, a kind of Vietnamese Cosa Nostra (also known as the "whorehouse gang") that pillaged the countryside and controlled vice in Saigon. Blunt, athletic and honest, he was given the sobriquet "Big" by U.S. military advisers because he was unusually large for a Vietnamese-nearly 6 ft. tall and 200 Ibs. Minh impressed Diem and in 1958 was appointed the first boss of a field-operations command that coordinated the mounting war against...