Word: truong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ambivalent Feelings. There are two main gangs of veterans in Saigon. One group, led by former Army Lieut. Truong Van Bo, is so well organized that it has issued quasi-governmental "identity cards" to its members. Bo is now a fugitive, and it was his men who shot it out with police after overpowering a cop who was trying to arrest...
...government tolerates only a narrow range of opposition; some members of the democratic left still languish in jail, including the prominent government opponent, Truong Dinh Dzu. There were no known Communists or Communist sympathizers among the 160 Senate candidates. While none of the 16 slates was endorsed by Thieu's six-party National Democratic and Socialist Front, eleven were considered favorably disposed to the government. The other five kept their criticism mild...
Measure of Distress. After several futile attempts to stamp out black-marketeering in the collectives in Vinh Phuc province, Party Theoretician Truong Chinh lamented that "corruption still remains, just like weeds that grow and grow again." The surly dock workers of Haiphong have left tons of cargo to rot and rust on the piers. In the countryside, stubborn peasants joke about Hanoi's efforts to make the collectives work. The latest concerns the government-issued Nam Mot (Model 51) plow. The shoddy, easily broken plow, say the peasants, should really be named "Mot Nam"-meaning one season...
...Including Hanoi's figurehead President Ton Due Thang, Premier Pham Van Dong and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, head of the Viet Cong delegation to the Paris peace talks. Alumni from Saigon include Phan Khac Suu, chief of state in 1965, and Truong Dinh Dzu, unsuccessful peace candidate in the 1967 presidential elections...
Less Than Deft. The chief effect of the Chau fiasco was to show that Thieu is less than deft in handling opposition. In recent years, he has turned relatively ineffectual opponents like Truong Dinh Dzu, the runner-up in the 1967 presidential election, and Thich Thien Minh, a leading Buddhist, into near martyrs by arresting and imprisoning them. Now, as a U.S. official in Saigon notes, "he has changed Chau overnight from a political nonentity into an international figure." When Chau gets a new trial to appeal his conviction, probably this week, he can be expected to make the most...