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...Quang Pagoda faction, representing the most outspoken element of the country's Buddhists, has long opposed the President. So have a number of leading Roman Catholics, members of the National Assembly, former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and such advocates of the "third force" as General Duong Van ("Big") Minh...
...official perversion should obscure its significance. The Bicentennial is a reminder of an event that--like the Vietnamese revolution today--turned the world upside down, laying a mighty country low and bringing power closer to a small country's ordinary people. It is no accident that Ho Chi Minh should have turned, when writing his own country's declaration of independence in 1945, to the American Declaration of Independence as a rhetorical model; for its radical vision continues to challenge official platitudes and complacency, and to remind the challengers that they have a long history behind them...
...rhetoric of the Bicentennial serves quite a different purpose for this country's government than it did for Ho Chi Minh. Instead of glorifying a new struggle, it serves to parody an old one, with a trumped-up consensus which conceals real inequality and conflict. One way to repudiate this attempt at a false consensus is through demonstrations, like the one the People's Bicentennial Commission has called for this Friday night. The Commission's plan for a midnight-to-draw vigil at Concord was unnecessarily theatrical, and its planners' emphasis on vogue phrases about "economic independence," or sending "Wall...
Another commonly mentioned possibility to succeed Thieu is a military directorate: an army group consisting of the most influential military figures in the country, including "Big" Minh. The military directorate might consolidate a defense but, given the long-term military disadvantage of the Saigon side, its aim would of necessity be a negotiated settlement with the Communists...
...never designated points where their forces could receive replacements of supplies. When Viet Cong troops showed up at assembly points for resettlement in Communist-held areas, government forces often ambushed them. As for Hanoi, it seemed to view the whole agreement as simply another means of fulfilling Ho Chi Minh's maxim: "Fight until the Americans are gone, and then fight again until the puppet government is overthrown...