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Determination, organization, passion: all were key elements of Ho's extraordinarily complicated personality, as they were of the close little band of men he chose to help lead his crusade. Le Duan, Vo Nguyen Giap, Pham Van Dong-all sworn to create a Viet Nam free of foreign control, all dedicated Communists. But they were Communists of a distinctly nationalist breed. Influenced though they were by the writings of Marx and Lenin, all seemed to know that neither Peking nor Moscow could win their war for them...
...first time I am seized," says Publisher Vo Long Trieu of the opposition Dai Dan Toe, "I will stop pub' lication. I can't afford to lose my deposit, and the government knows it." The triple threat of censorship, seizure and shutdown will force editors to be more circumspect, but most take Decree 007 philosophically. "What does it matter," asked one last week, "whether you have two or three nooses around your neck? One is enough to hang...
What happens next? The North's Vo Nguyen Giap has, in addition to his forces outside South Viet Nam, at least 80,000 men left within the country. Unless President Thieu and his forces can keep the North Vietnamese from forming up in battle strength again-or some sort of tentative cease-fire is agreed upon-most U.S. advisers in Saigon fully expect the North Vietnamese to strike once more, perhaps between mid-July and mid-September...
Partly because of the attrition caused by the bombing raids, and partly because of the deliberate caution of North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap. Communist main-force attacks have recently been replaced by a campaign of probes, sapper assaults and artillery barrages. The Communists' failure to follow up initial advantages suggested that they might indeed be running out of steam, but the situation in the three main trouble spots remained ambiguous...
...were the North Vietnamese really running out of steam? To be sure, the elements of eleven divisions that General Vo Nguyen Giap has in South Viet Nam have been slow to capitalize on their successes in the Central Highlands and in the northern provinces. NVA tanks and artillery challenged the scanty defenses of Kontum last week, and the long-awaited attack on that vulnerable Highlands city might not be far off. But there was no sign of the expected push on Hué, the former imperial capital 24 miles south of Quang Tri, which is believed by allied strategists...