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Only a strategy aimed at maintaining appearances can explain the recent "second Tet" attack on Saigon. Two weeks before it started, the highest ranking defector to come over to the allied side, Lieut. Colonel Tran Van Dae, brought with him the complete battle plan. Nonetheless, the Communists attacked, launching 26 battalions toward the city, more than twice as many as employed during Tet. With the allies waiting, it was a lemming-like march to almost certain destruction. Not a major unit got inside Saigon proper. Many of the attackers were so youthful and green and recently infiltrated that they...
Addressing the nation on television and radio, dressed in an open-necked set of fatigues without insignia, Thieu named as new Premier Tran Van Huong, 64, one of the most popular and respected civilian politicians in South Viet Nam. A grey-haired schoolteacher renowned for his rigid honesty, Huong was twice mayor of Saigon and briefly Premier in 1964-65. He ran for President of the new civilian government last fall, and finished fourth-but handily carried the city of Saigon...
...Some 20 victims met their fate-burial alive-at the end of a death march from the Redemptorist Church, where they had sought refuge, to Ap Lang Xa Con more than two miles away. Among them was Tran Dien, one of Hue's five Senators in the National Assembly in Saigon...
...talks could be used by Hanoi "for propaganda purposes" and "to foster dissension between the Republic of Viet Nam's allies." Still, for nearly a month the South Vietnamese government has had a negotiations task force at work preparing Saigon's positions for possible talks. Foreign Minister Tran Van Do quickly called a meeting to discuss how South Viet Nam could field an unofficial team in Paris...
...Senator Tran Van Don, former lieutenant general, heads the newly formed Front for the Salvation of the Nation: "The war has two aspects, the military and the political. But we have been worrying only about the military side. If I were President Johnson, I would make a very big effort to get greater political unity and stress placed on political matters...