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RE: COUNTRROP Nw, eto WARY. Question: Yeah. (Rest unintelligible) Answer: Well I have very s:rong critique of the weatherman thing. Maybe we should get into that in the panel on the Revolutionary Youth Movememnt. J think it's more 'than 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 Lhe representatives of the North and +he reprerent ; cf th. South, We do this all the time. In other words, you raiee ce>tain questions with the North Vietnamese trait are about S oth Vietnam, and they always refer you to the ae FOuth Vietuamese an? vice versa. By the, you krew, I mean there's ne political diffex-nces between them, er no antagonisms between them of an, sort that I could ever find. And they basically understand that Vie*nam jis one, that. Vietnam is one country. Question: Since Ho Chi Minh was enjoying considerable personal populazity even among non-Communists, what impact do you think his death will have on them? | f ae 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 libern' ion strugqles, 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 thrsughout 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 — wt Fes pyran —— BTR ny <n s St eee ee SCE embazre s