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...considering sending commandos into North Vietnam to murder North Vietnamese leaders whom he has pronounced guilty of mistreating American POWs. And if the Son Tay raid was a rotten rescue mission, it was certainly a fine dress rehearsal for an attack by helicopter-borne suicide-squads intent on assassinating Pham Van Dong or Vo Nguyen Giap...
...American embassy dinner in Saigon recently, Presidential Aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman dished out a few unappetizing warnings to South Viet Nam's Economics Minister Pham Kim Ngoc. Unless something was done about Saigon's faltering economy, Nixon's men said, an unhappy U.S. Congress might sharply curtail American aid. Congress has reason to be concerned. Unchecked inflation has reduced purchasing power in South Viet Nam by 93% in the past 21 months. The trade deficit, thanks to American import subsidies, has risen to $685 million. The piaster, officially valued at 118 to the dollar, draws...
...simply but adequately dressed. It appears to be an extremely egalitarian society. One day we were out walking through Hanoi and the head of the Friendship Committee, who is also a professor of Fine Arts, came by on a bicycle just like everybody else. When we talked with Pham Van Dong there were no guards. We met him alone and in a very relaxed and informal atmosphere. These are admittedly superficial impressions, but I can only go by what...
...story in heavy industry is even less encouraging. At the big Hon Gai coal fields in Quang Ninh province, for example, production has slipped steadily since 1965, when it peaked at an annual output of 4,300,000 tons. Another bombing casualty? Not quite. The problem, as Premier Pham Van Dong put it in a recent speech, was labor's failure "to work with determination...
...Including Hanoi's figurehead President Ton Due Thang, Premier Pham Van Dong and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, head of the Viet Cong delegation to the Paris peace talks. Alumni from Saigon include Phan Khac Suu, chief of state in 1965, and Truong Dinh Dzu, unsuccessful peace candidate in the 1967 presidential elections...