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...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...
...Paris negotiations. According to this theory, as long as Ho was on the scene ?healthy or ill?it was impossible for other leaders to make a move toward breaking the deadlock. There has been a lack of progress, in fact, ever since Chief North Vietnamese Strategist Le Due Tho abruptly left Paris last July. Several Washington officials now believe that he may have been called home because Ho had suddenly begun to fail. These officials also believe it was more than coincidental that last week, only hours before Hanoi announced Ho's approaching death, North Vietnamese Negotiator Xuan Thuy...
Little real movement is expected in Paris, however, until Tho or another senior official returns with new instructions from Hanoi. Even then, it may be a while before the interim leaders can agree on the wording of those instructions. Nor is a quick shift expected on the battlefields of the South, where last week Communist forces staged their heaviest attacks in almost a month. The Viet Cong and North Viet Nam, however, announced that there would be a three-day ceasefire, perhaps this week, to mark Ho's death. There were indications that the allied forces would tacitly follow suit...
...Communists have insisted that any elections held while the Thieu government is in power would inevitably be rigged against them. In Paris, North Viet Nam's chief political strategist, Le Due Tho, rejected Thieu's proposal even before it was formally offered. Nonetheless, South Viet Nam's President probably feels that he has scored a tactical point and left the ball in the Communist court for the time being...
...Saigon regime partly because it is military. But few are seriously committed to Communism. To most Vietnamese intellectuals, Communism was mostly the means of creating a revolutionary political force against French colonialism. Those few who were attracted are out in the jungle now: among them are Lawyer Nguyen Huu Tho, president of the National Liberation Front, and Architect Huynh Tan Phat, president of the Communists' recently proclaimed provisional revolutionary government...