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...election also brought out Japan's considerable strain of pragmatism. Japanese voters have an abiding admiration for Ho Chi Minh's holdout against U.S. attack, but they can also understand why the U.S. cannot return Okinawa, with its B-52 landing bases, so long as the war continues-and the electorate decided not to make an issue of it. Sympathy with China, on the other hand, has declined rapidly as Japanese newsmen and businessmen have been harassed and imprisoned there; trade with China has declined 20% in the past two years. Even the popularity of the talent candidates...
...HO CHI MINH: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY by Jean Lacouture. 313 pages. Random House...
...most of his career, Ho Chi Minh has been playing a kind of political character part: power disguised as innocence. A harmless-looking old party with a ridiculous beard and a peasant's jacket, the leader of North Viet Nam conjures up for many people the image of "a Franciscan Gandhi" or "Chaplin at his most affecting." So says Le Monde Journalist Jean Lacouture, who adds: "This is a man so fragile that he seems to survive only by the sheer force of his imagination...
...Viet Nam-watcher for two decades (Vietnam: Between Two Truces) and a student of other power styles (De Gaulle), Biographer Lacouture has the difficult job of estimating a man who has made a career out of being underestimated and who wears ambiguity as practically his uniform. No wonder Ho and the book occasionally seem to dissolve into mist. But the tracking is never dull as Lacouture chases down his Asian escape artist...
...Quakers had planned a second voyage with medical supplies last fall, but when Ho Cho Minh protested that such a voyage would be too dangerous, Phoenix headed for South Vietnam on its humanitarian mission. After the incidents with the South Vietnamese government and a layover just off Cambodia (to avoid provoking Cambodian-American relation), Ho sent word to the crew to come to Haiphong during the Tet truce at the end of January...