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...Johnson's favorites was Continental Airlines, headed by Robert Six, a rangy, gregarious airline pioneer who happens to be a gung-ho Democrat and a Johnson pal. Continental was also the U.S.'s "spook" airline in Viet Nam, flying many CIA missions. It was only natural for Six to expect some rewards -and only natural for Johnson to grant them. He awarded Continental some rich runs to the South Pacific (TIME, Dec. 27). But no sooner had Nixon taken the oath than he rescinded the awards...
...Party First Secretary Gustav Husak was unlikely to dispel. Still echoing were the gunshots exchanged by Soviet and Chinese soldiers along the Ussuri River. Then there were the ghosts at the banquet, the men who had refused to come: China's Mao Tse-tung, North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh, Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, Cuba's Fidel Castro. They are the most famous figures of contemporary Communism; their stature, by any measure, dwarfs Russia's present leadership...
...unifying and strengthening hate symbol-and spurred more subversion. Some regard the U.S. presence in Viet Nam as a particular blunder, because it may have weakened Viet Nam's historical role as a buffer against Chinese expansion. There is one theory that the U.S. should have let Ho Chi Minh unify Viet Nam and emerge as an anti-Chinese Asian Tito. This may be fantasy. Still, U.S. intervention may have helped to draw the Chinese into the war. The material aid that Peking has furnished Hanoi must give the Chinese a measure of control over North Viet Nam. There...
...experts, notably Hanoi Watcher Douglas Pike, profess to detect differences in the Hanoi leadership about how best to proceed with the war in the South. The dominant group, of which Ho and Defense 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...
Tough Facade. Whether such differences actually exist or not, the regime is still putting up a tough facade. In a meeting with his military leaders, Ho Chi Minh last week declared that peace will come "only when all American aggressor troops are completely swept out of our country and the puppet traitors are overthrown." Added Ho: "I look forward to hearing of great and glorious new victories against the enemy." It is bellicose talk, but no American analyst could say for certain whether Ho really meant it-or whether it was only rhetoric intended to strengthen the Communists' bargaining...