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...groundwork for a tranquil succession. Over the past several years, Ho had gradually moved away from the day-to-day exercise of power, turning over routine responsibilities to a triumvirate consisting of Premier Pham Van Dong, Party First Secretary Le Duan and high-ranking Politburo Member Truong Chinh, all in their early 60s (see box, page 28). For the immediate future, Ho's title will probably be taken by Vice President Ton Due Thang, an 81-year-old nonentity. Actual power will probably be wielded by the triumvirate?plus Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap...
...major policy issue confronting Hanoi?how best to win the war in the South. Giap, Dong and Le Duan support the current policy: intensive guerrilla activity interspersed with conventional, regular-force battles or "high points," all aimed at inflicting a decisive victory in the tradition of Dienbienphu. Truong Chinh, clearly influenced by the theories of Mao Tse-tung, favors dropping to a lower level of warfare. He argues that such protracted conflict would eventually exhaust...
...opted for temporary disengagement in the belief that a lull in the fighting will spur quicker U.S. withdrawal from South Viet Nam. Once large numbers of U.S. troops have pulled out, the Communists could resume guerrilla warfare with relatively bright hopes of success. Hanoi's chief ideologue, Truong Chinh, has been advocating that plan for a long time. - It is Hanoi's intention to lure the allies into reducing patrols and easing general pressure, thus facilitating an unhindered Communist buildup that would culminate in another large offensive such as the 1968 Tet attack that irreparably disillusioned the American...
...after returning from his summit with Richard Nixon, Thieu again warned "socalled intellectuals" who dally with notions of coalition that they would be "punished severely." The threat was hardly novel: Pham Van Nhon, the publisher of Le Vietnam Nouveau, is serving a five-year sentence for associating with Communists. Truong Dinh Dzu, who recommended negotiations with the Communists when he ran for the presidency in 1967, has been in jail for a year. Considering that the Saigon regime has been at war for years, abridgment of some democratic freedoms is entirely natural, up to a point. Still, the situation makes...
...Minister Vo Nguyen Giap are members, is made up of hard-liners who brush aside domestic considerations. They hold that the war can be won by pressing on with the present strategy of employing both conventional and guerrilla forces in the South. A second group led by Politburo Member Truong Chinh, so the analysis goes, favors a return to guerrilla warfare in the South in an effort to outlast the U.S. and the South Vietnamese while conserving the North's own manpower and other resources. The third, and so far least influential group, whose spokesman is Foreign Minister Nguyen...