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...unanimous. Former Premier and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, who just a month ago seemed to be making his own bid for power, began trying to organize pro-Minh sentiment within the armed forces. Politicians, religious and opposition leaders added their backing; even the powerful leader of the An Quang Pagoda group, the Venerable Thich Tri Quang, issued an unprecedented personal endorsement...
...pessimists believe that the North is bent on a dramatic battle for Saigon. But reducing the city to rubble would increase the likelihood of bitter-end opposition to Communist control by the many well-organized political groups within South Viet Nam?groups like the Buddhists of the militant An Quang Pagoda faction, the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai religious sects, and powerful Catholics like Father Tranh Huu Thanh, who organized effective protests against the Thieu government, not to mention the many thousands of police, militiamen and regular soldiers...
...lieutenant general and the job of Defense Minister in the P.R.G. (the Viet Cong is the fighting arm of the P.R.G.). Apparently he is of peasant origin and has no formal education; in his younger years he worked as a coolie on the railroad in his native Quang Ngai province, which is in central Viet Nam. Recruited by Ho Chi Minn, Tra was a Communist Party agitator against the French colonial government in the 1930s and 1940s...
Shades of Red. Ten days after its capture, Danang appeared to be returning to normalcy. Stores were open and cinemas were operating, featuring such Hanoi potboilers as The Revered Flag and Battlefield in Quang Due. North and South Vietnamese currencies were both in circulation, but the black-market value of Hanoi's dong increased daily against Saigon's piaster. Looters sold rice from government storehouses and motorbikes and boats left behind by those who had fled. Such enterprise stopped abruptly when Communist soldiers shot ten looters and led others away with hands bound...
While many Vietnamese were trying to find some way to leave their nation, President Thieu was insisting that he would stay-much to the dismay of a growing number of his countrymen. Last week the United Buddhist Church called on Thieu to resign. The An Quang Pagoda faction, representing the most outspoken element of the country's Buddhists, has long opposed the President. So have a number of leading Roman Catholics, members of the National Assembly, former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and such advocates of the "third force" as General Duong Van ("Big") Minh...