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...only official Administration reaction to the Moratorium came on Tuesday in a speech by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. After a conference with Nixon, Agnew asked the Moratorium leaders to repudiate a letter from North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong. The letter expressed hope that the nationwide demonstrations would bring an end to American participation...
...Dong (Worker's Party), last week was elevated from the vice-presidency to the post left vacant by Ho's death in September. Thang's accession to the presidency confirmed that none of the four real rivals for Ho's mantle - Premier Pham Van Dong, Party Boss Le Duan, National Assembly Chairman Truong Chinh and Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap - are yet strong enough to claim it for themselves...
...echelons of MIGs thundered overhead and cannon boomed out a 21-gun salute, North Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong burst into tears. So did Nguyen Huu Tho, leader of the Viet Cong, as well as many of the 100,000 spectators assembled last week in Hanoi's Ba Dinh (Independence) Square for the funeral of Ho Chi Minh. "It was as if Dong had lost his father," said Jean Sainteny, France's official representative at the ceremonies and a veteran of many years in Indochina. "Suddenly he must have realized that he had to assume...
Change will not come tomorrow, for Ho and other leaders had tried to lay the groundwork for a tranquil succession. Over the past several years, Ho had gradually moved away from the day-to-day exercise of power, turning over routine responsibilities to a triumvirate consisting of Premier Pham Van Dong, Party First Secretary Le Duan and high-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...
...must now be replaced. At week's end, Hanoi Radio announced that a collective leadership "selected and well-trained" by Ho would rule the country, at least for a while. Its members were not named, but these four men are almost certain to be among them: PHAM VAN DONG, the Premier. He was closer to Ho than anyone, although that will not necessarily help him succeed his mentor. Ho called him "my best pupil" and "my other self." Dong's striking face was once compared to "a mask carved for a museum of the revolution, in order...