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...Impression of Stalemate. There was no doubt about who was the strategist behind the Communists' desperate thrust: North Viet Nam's Defense Minister General Vo Nguyen Giap, the charismatic victor over the French at Dienbienphu in 1954 and creator of the North Vietnamese army. In its surprise, its boldness, the sweep of its planning and its split-second orchestration, the general offensive bore all the unmistakable marks of Giap's genius. All the evidence indicated, in fact, that probably for the first time since the war against the French, Giap was personally directing the entire campaign in South Viet...
...allies had not only dominated the battlefield but had also seized the political initiative with the successful series of elections last year that culminated in the installation of Nguyen Van Thieu as civilian President under a new constitution. Increasingly, the bulk of the war was being fought on South Viet Nam's peripheries, leaving a virtual vacuum in the countryside that allied pacification efforts were moving to fill. A dramatic demonstration of Communist power and prowess was required. To Giap, the countryside general offensive seemed tailormade for the task...
...growing momentum, Giap, true to his own maxims and proven experience against the French, argued for an abandonment of large-scale or big-unit fighting and a return to guerrilla warfare in the south that might last for 10 or 20 years. His chief opponent and longtime rival, General Nguyen Chi Thanh, wanted to stick with big-unit warfare. Thanh had the advantage of being closest to the action as head of all Communist operations in South Viet Nam from his headquarters northwest of Saigon along the Cambodian border, and he prevailed in the Politburo...
...those little ironies of fate that General Vo Nguyen Giap's name contains the Vietnamese words for force (Vo) and armor (Giap). The commander of North Viet Nam's armed forces and the overlord of the Viet Cong, he is a dangerous and wily foe who has become something of a legend in both Viet Nams for his stunning defeat of the French at Dienbienphu. He is one of the principal developers-along with Mao Tse-tung and Cuba's late Che Guevara-of the art of guerrilla warfare, a tactician of such talents that U.S. military...
...weeks this winter, Mrs. More was the foster mother of two of the children, Nguyen Phat Luom and Trang Cuong Viet, who were treated for severe urns and shrapnel wounds at the Beth Israel Hospital in November. Mrs. Moore accompanied the two children back to their families and left Saigon on January 30, only 12 hours before the current Viet Cong offensive began...