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...magistrates were mostly chosen through an examination system in which the candidates competed at three main levels. After the local examinations, successful candidates would be allowed to take the district examination, the regional examination, and the palace examination respectively. Candidates who passed all the exams would be called the tien si and would be appointed as high magistrates or court mandarins. Those who passed the exams on the lower levels would be appointed to less important jobs. There were many successful candidates who, instead of working for the court, went back to their respective villages and towns and formed...
...John Turner may be rich, intelligent and Catholic, but he isn't in the photograph with Prime Minister Pearson [April 14]. How can I convince my Canadian friends that Americans are knowledgeable about their politics when TIME can't tell a Turner from a Chrétien...
...most immediate and urgent problem, Tien Phong felt, "is to stabilize the masses' life. There must be plans to build or consolidate shelters from bombs and artillery fire and at the same time to lead and organize mutual assistance in production and struggle to enable the masses to have their minds at ease." Only that way can the party leaders organize "steady, strong political ranks" to be used later as the nucleus of a military force. "Many areas are still failing to organize a permanent struggle force," the magazine concluded, "and even where this force is available, it lacks...
...Tien Phong (Vanguard), monthly organ of Viet Nam's Communist Party, the Reds confirmed the growing feeling in Saigon that they are not only being mauled militarily but doing badly in the political war as well. Until last year, when the U.S. began its massive intervention, they had skillfully nurtured peasant sympathy. The new military pressures forced the Viet Cong to raise taxes, broaden the conscription of rural youths, and make other stiff demands on their peasant converts. The buildup of U.S. forces and the pacification of rural areas, Tien Phong noted, has, "practically speaking, created great difficulty...
Mutilations on Display. In the cities, Tien Phong counseled, the Reds should use demonstrations, strikes and barrages of propaganda against the high cost of living, food shortages, the draft, and demand wage increases and better jobs. In rural areas, the protests should center on allied air and artillery strikes and "the plan to herd people with their unhusked rice into concentration centers and to use toxic chemicals in the massacre of our compatriots." Then there is the subtler approach, such as paying calls on the wives of Vietnamese troops "to inquire about the health of their husbands" and thus undermine...