Word: nhan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outworn Welcome. The P.R.G.'s decision to get rid of foreign newsmen appears to reflect a Communist belief that for the moment at least, less news or no news is good news. However, the P.R.G.'s public explanations have been vague. One polite official, Bui Huu Nhan, of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, told ten-year Saigon Veteran George Esper, "You have been here too long under the old regime. We want new people of our choice...
...chance that Thieu's successor might be a strong nationalist who would try to rally the armed forces for a last-ditch stand against the Communists. A bloody battle for Saigon would then become inevitable-as would its outcome. Despite the hyperbole, Hanoi's party newspaper Nhan Dan was probably correct when it boasted: "Wherever our army advances, it smashes and disintegrates all of the enemy...
...government should consist of representatives of the present South Vietnamese regime, the National Liberation Front and a neutral third party; that would obviously set the stage for an accommodation between the Communists and the other factions in the government once the Americans departed. But the official North Vietnamese newspaper Nhan Dan suggested last week that Hanoi would accept "necessary measures to ensure that neither side dominates the political life in South Viet Nam," at least for a transitional period. In that case, the North Vietnamese would be bridgeably close to President Nixon's proposal of last May. He offered...
...Hanoi's chief negotiator at the Paris peace talks, recently conceded, in a definite understatement, that "Mr. Nixon's actions of intensifying the war naturally cause certain difficulties and losses to the North Vietnamese people." More surprisingly, North Viet Nam's official party newspaper Nhan Dan recently admitted quite openly that the bombing had caused "very serious economic problems...
...concept of a "people's war" by guerrillas, he has developed the orchestrated use of guerrillas and conventional forces, and demonstrated-as at Tet in 1968-the importance of psychology to the outcome on the battlefield. In a 1969 article in the North Vietnamese army journal, Quart Dot Nhan Dan, he spelled out the strategy that he is pursuing in this offensive. "Being held in an unfavorable strategic position, the enemy can use only a small part of his troops. Though numerous, he is outnumbered; though strong, he is weak." To Giap, "the main goal of fighting must...