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...ranking Politburo Member Truong Chinh, all in their early 60s (see box, page 28). For the immediate future, Ho's title will probably be taken by Vice President Ton Due Thang, an 81-year-old nonentity. Actual power will probably be wielded by the triumvirate?plus Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE LEGACY OF HO CHI MINH | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

Hanoi, convinced that Nixon's delay of troop withdrawals was essentially an empty gesture, reacted with smug cockiness. After the 32nd session of the Paris peace talks last week, North Viet Nam's Nguyen Thanh Le loftily declared that rising American opposition to the war at home, combined with what he described as a near mutiny among U.S. troops in Viet Nam (see following story), would compel Nixon to accept the N.L.F.'s ten-point peace program. A pivotal point calls for unilateral U.S. withdrawal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: GROWING DOUBTS ABOUT HANOI'S INTENTIONS | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...juntas, in or out of uniform, has ruled the country. Civilian ministers have held office but not authority. Premier Tran Van Huong, appointed in May 1968, was no exception. Last week the affable Huong, who enjoys wide popularity among the Vietnamese people, lost what little power he had. President Nguyen Van Thieu replaced him with General Tran Thien Khiem, 43, the hard-eyed minister in charge of police and pacification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Limiting the Leadership | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

Waning Influence. Khiem, who was involved in the overthrow of Diem and masterminded two subsequent coupplots, joins Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, previously the air-force chief, to form an all-military triumvirate. They are expected to take an uncompromising political line at home and at the Paris peace talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Limiting the Leadership | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...secretary of the American Friends Service Committee. Dellinger, 53, a patriarch of the American peace movement, obtained a plane ticket from a "movement" travel agent and flew to Paris. He talked for three days with Xuan Oanh, North Vietnamese Negotiator Colonel Ha Van Lau and N.L.F. Foreign Minister Madame Nguyen Thi Binh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How the Prisoners Were Released | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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