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...fighting French legionnaires, fellow Vietnamese and American G.I.s, after standing up to the technology and will of the world's greatest power, this small agrarian land?albeit one well supplied by China and the Soviet Union?was finally on the verge of victory. What durable, wily old Ho Chi Minh had insisted on, what his heirs in Hanoi had continued to demand?the departure of the Americans and their chosen government in the South?was finally coming to pass...
...more acceptable to the conquerors at the gates? Would the Communists spare Saigon in any case? At week's end Huong still clung stubbornly to the presidency. But it seemed clear that Saigon would have to replace him or risk destruction. The almost certain successor: General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, the neutralist Buddhist who, in a still-remembered moment of glory, helped overthrow the dictatorial regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 (see box page...
There was a time when Minh might have proved to be the catalyst for those groups in the South that favored a compromise political settlement with the Communists; had that happened, there might have been at least some chance of sharing power. Now it was too late. His imminent return to leadership symbolized the final failure of the American-supported effort in Viet Nam and the defeat of those groups who had led the war against the Communists...
...After helping Diem wrest control of the South Vietnamese army, the United States continued to support him as he used it to break up and destroy competing religious-political sects, disband traditional village councils, and force peasants to leave their homes and enter stockades. Meanwhile, the Viet Minh continued to work in the villages in small groups called Chi bo or "party branches," implementing land reforms, limiting taxation, and continuing to win support from rural farmers...
Sticks and Bones. It probably wasn't entirely without a sense of theater that the Provisional Revolutionary Government entered Ho Chi Minh city within hours of May Day, but the war in Vietnam ended with less drama than we might have expected. What of the drama the war produced in the U.S.? David Rabe's Sticks and Bones has usually been considered the best of it, with other works like Medal of Honor Rag being placed by critics "in the tradition of Sticks and Bones." The play is about the psychic warping of a blind Vietnam veteran and the havoc...