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...that North Viet Nam does not have its troubles. Ho Chi Minh's Communist Lao Dong party is divided between its pro-Moscow and pro-Peking factions, and "Uncle" Ho has his hands full keeping things in balance. Rice rations were trimmed last month for the third time in a year, sugar grows increasingly short, meat is a luxury available only to the army and select workers -and then a ration of only three-quarters of a pound per week. Even coal and steel production, of which Hanoi was once so proud, is lagging. And though Ho Chi Minh...
...between the two countries. Cambodia's Prince Norodom ("Snookie") Sihanouk had just tried to hold similar border talks with North Viet Nam-an interesting endeavor, in view of the fact that Cambodia has no border with North Viet Nam, only South Viet Nam. Apparently rebuffed by a mystified Ho Chi Minh, Sihanouk protested that Hanoi's Reds had been "as vague as the Anglo-Saxons." But that did not necessarily make him any friendlier toward the South Vietnamese delegates...
Speaking at a Tocsin-sponsored forum, Fall said that the silent menace posed by the United States' Seventh Fleet, and the bitter memory of 1000 years of Chinese rule might be sufficient to impel President Ho Chi Minh to agree to a permanent stalemate in the current conflict...
...Johnson Administration, of which McNamara was earnest emissary, the question now arose whether to implement one or more of Washington's many plans to carry the Vietnamese war up into Ho Chi Minh's North Viet Nam. With November elections in the offing, Lyndon Johnson no doubt wanted to improve the U.S. position in Viet Nam. The nagging question...
Veterans say that most Americans in the field go through almost the same emotional pattern. First comes two months of gung-ho spirit, then four months during which their sense of humor keeps them going, followed by five months of growing exasperation and often outright disgust, and one month of relief because the one-year tour of duty is coming to an end. But for all that, the average U.S. soldier while on duty in Viet Nam retains the basic condition of good morale-the continued desire to fight. There is little illusion about the enormity of the task...