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ot ~ RE: COUNTFROP Nd, ETON WHEY Question: Yeah. (Rest unintelligible) Answer: Well I have very strong critique of the weatherman thing. Maybe we should get into that in the panel on the Revolutionary Youth Movememnt. J think it's more !han to alienate working people, I think it's an attack on working people. But we can get into that later. Question: (Unintelligible) Answer: Well they work very much together. But at the same time, there is always a kind of deference between the two, In terms of protocel, they alwa.s in terms of talking that you always make a distinction between che representatives of the North and fhe representatives ef th- South. We do this all the time. In other woxdse, you raliee ce>tain questions with the North Vietnamese trait are about S 2'h Vietnam, and they always refer you to the Fouth Vietoamese ar? vice vers1. By the, you krew, I mean there's nc political diffexsnces between them, cr no antagonisms between Chem of an, sort that I could ever find. And they hasically understand that Vie’ nam is one, that. Vietnam is one country. Question: Since Ho Chi Minh was enjoying considerable personal populazity even among non-fommunists, what impact do you think his death will have on them? Answer: J answered that for BURCHETTE (phonetic) back in January before HO CHI MINH died. He was in New York, and we asked him just a matter of speculation, that we understood that HO CHI MINH was getting kind of old, and he said that it wouldn't have any effect, that it would be a loss not only for Vietnamese people but for, you krow, all liber’' ion struggles, in the sense that HO CHI MINH is a great man, a great leader. But me of the things, qualities of HO CHI MINH that wade him such a great man is that he understood throughout the struggle the necessity of collective leadership and held to that principle throughout the development of the strugyle in Vietnam. The way BURCHETTE (Phonetic) put it, this is in the eyes of the Vietnamese, that there are a lot of other leaders, TRA CHINH (phonetic), LEE DONH (phonetic), PHA DAN DONG (phonetic) that enjoy a lot of respect in terms not only of 124 SAH, aliad ii i lc ail) SS RY ki “ . Sap alyperngrames* ™~ 7 ee a 2 nr ’ i ee tN Een age