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...Game. North Viet Nam's sly, goat-bearded President Ho Chi Minh is getting big help from both Russia and Red China, and his favorite tactic is to play one ally against the other. For a thousand years, China dominated Viet Nam. and it was from China that Ho Chi Minh got the supplies to win at Dienbienphu. More recently, Peking sent him 8,000 technicians, is building him a steel mill and training Muong tribesmen...
...last August Ho flew off to Moscow for an unpublicized talk with Khrushchev. The following month Ho sided with Moscow in its doctrinal dispute with Peking, and last December the payoff came. Russia promised to ship 43 industrial enterprises to Viet Nam by 1965, including power stations, fertilizer factories and machine-tool factories. In addition, Moscow lent Hanoi $480 million in rubles...
Grubby & Cheerless. Ho Chi Minh is totally dependent on outside aid. Last week he announced a $2,500,000 grant from tiny Bulgaria and a Czechoslovakian offer to build him four new factories. On his own, he has not been able to lift his economy above the subsistence level...
...expanded 19 months ago from 30 to 162 men. The recruits were seasoned soldiers; of the present force, 37 temporarily dropped out of the military to come to Laos and the rest were drawn from the retired list. Under their flapping shirts is more than one gung-ho tattoo, such as "3rd Division Forever." At the top is Heintges, Coblenz-born son of a former German officer, and a 1936 graduate of West Point who rose rapidly through the infantry officer ranks during heavy fighting in Italy and France during World War II. After the war he was made chief...
Softspoken, middle-sized, myopic Marshall Field Jr., 44, has the mild, diffident mien of a church usher. Ho neither looks nor acts like a fighter, but the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News is enthusiastically engaged in a scrap. What is more, he picked it. With his two papers, Field is hurling a daily challenge at the late Robert Rutherford McCormick's big and powerful morning Tribune...