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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North's second-ranking military man, who died in 1967. There were always divisions and differences, but Ho helped keep them submerged by the force of his personality and, in his declining years, by his mere presence. "He was the hoop that held the staves of the barrel in round," says Pike. "Now that hoop is gone." As a result, fissures are likely to appear more frequently. The aim will remain the same?unifying Viet Nam under Hanoi's control?but the five contenders are likely to differ on the means. Pike believes, for example, that they disagree...
...inclined toward Moscow, in the Sino-Soviet dispute. Imprisoned for ten years by the French, he began his career late but climbed fast. When the country was divided in 1954, Hanoi withdrew its crack troops from the South but assigned Le Duan there to prepare politically for a second round. He was so effective, as the later success of the Viet Cong proved, that...
...district attorney whenever violence threatens property or life and limb." The University of Miami established a new security office last May; its first director, Fred Doerner Jr., a former legal counsel for the F.B.I., has since hired an assistant and 32 uniformed guards to patrol the campus round the clock...
...Washington Merry-Go-Round" was carried by more than 650 papers, almost twice as many as any other column, and last week's TIME-Louis Harris Poll showed him to be the best-known columnist in the U.S. The column will continue under the byline of Jack Anderson, a former assistant who has functioned more as an equal partner in the past few years...
...could also get more accurate. Though aggressive reporting is the "Merry-Go-Round" hallmark, the column is only slightly less well known for its sacrifice of fact to fancy when the crusading spirit is upon it. As recently as seven weeks ago, Pearson was caught with his facts in the wastebasket when he charged that President Nixon had tried to dictate a starring role for himself in the Apollo moon-flight ceremonies. Anderson's reconstruction of the tragedy at Chappaquiddick also struck many as more supposition than substance. The columnist wrote that Kennedy at first persuaded his cousin Joseph...