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...from the country, to make room for a safer replacement--Chuck Colby. Lansdale is despised by members of the Dai Viet, Thieu's party. The Vietnamese press reports that last month he sounded out religious leaders and supporters of the '63 coup on the possibilities for replacing Thieu. Ngo Vinh Long, a member of the Vietnam Resource Center, said that the visit, Lansdale's first since 1968, intends to show U.S. leaders that the Ford administration may want to pressure Thieu into resigning...
There may be Nixon's kind of honor in Vietnam--Thieu's regime shows few sings of disappearing--but there is no peace in Vietnam. Ngo Vinh Long '64, who works at Harvard's Vietnamese Studies Project, has carefully monitored the progress of peace, and he reports that war continues steadily...
Thieu believes that if the war continues, American aid will continue to flow. So Thieu prolongs the war, directing his army and air force to strike at NLF territory and ignoring the calls for reconciliation contained in the cease fire agreement. Ngo Vinh Long '64, who works at Harvard's Vietnamese Studies Project, has estimated that the South Vietnamese Air Force, using warplanes supplied by the United States, has flown about 15,000 bombing and reconaissance missions since the ceasefire. Obviously, such bombing prevents the peasants from going home--and joining...
...Vinh Long '64, a Vietnamese who works with the Vietnamese Studies Project at Harvard's East Asian Research Center, has taken up this neglected area. Before the Revolution is a remarkable and insightful book which draws upon many Vietnamese and French sources and Long's own experience in his homeland to depict the agonizing destruction of rural Vietnam. The book is divided into two parts: in the first, Long painstakingly molds reams of statistics into a moving but never heavy-handed description of the French transformation of rural Vietnam. In Part II, he presents his own translations of articles...
...Vinh Long has disagreed elsewhere with certain aspects of the Mus-FitzGerald analysis. Traditional Vietnam, he argued in a Ramparts review of FitzGerald's book, was not a stable, ordered moral universe. Vietnamese history is punctuated with peasant upheavals and popular resistance to foreign invasions, including to French landing parties in the 19th century. Resistance diminished somewhat in the middle years of French rule, Long suggested, not because some heavenly mandate rested upon the French, but because their rule so brutally and swiftly transformed Vietnamese society that the peasants were unable to act. Not some mystical power of French rule...