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...into Saigon, they wasted no time in starting on them. Reports from the new Viet Nam-some from the Communists' Liberation Radio, but others from reputable Western journalists still in the city-suggested that calm and order had indeed been quickly restored. Unlike the ruthless new rulers of Cambodia (see story page 26), the victors in Viet Nam seemed anxious to win the good will of a population that only days before had been in a state of panic. The Communists gave every indication that they would establish tight, unopposed control over the land and people that had suddenly...
Whatever the timetable it was clear, as many Southeast Asia experts have long said, that a united Viet Nam could be the dominant power of the area. With a combined population of about 43 million, it would dwarf neighboring Laos and Cambodia and be larger than Thailand (pop. 41 million). During a generation of continuous warfare, the North Vietnamese and their Viet Cong allies clearly proved themselves to be among the best-trained and best-equipped fighters in the world. The North Vietnamese army of 570,000 is four times as large as that of Thailand. In swiftly conquering...
...Kuan Yew-all on their way from a British Commonwealth meeting in Jamaica. To each, Ford gave the same basic message: despite widely voiced doubts in Asia and Europe (see story page 29) about America's dependability as an ally, in the wake of Communist victories in Cambodia and South Viet Nam, those "setbacks in no way weakened U.S. resolve to stand by its allies and friends in Asia and elsewhere." At his press conference last week, Ford forcefully struck the same note, stressing that the U.S. "can move ahead even in the Pacific...
...power to oppose any new U.S. military involvement in the Orient. Thus the uncertainties of the congressional response to some future challenge to an American commitment complicated Ford's attempts to sound reassuring. Singapore's Lee, who has called the events in Viet Nam and Cambodia "an unmitigated disaster," sampled sentiment on Capitol Hill and was far from reassured. As a result, in his toast at the formal state dinner given for him at the White House, Lee bluntly urged the President and Congress to "speak in one voice on basic issues of foreign policy, and in clear...
...government to screen out "undesirables" is more like Nazi Germany managing to survive the war and then denying refuge to Quisling or Laval on the grounds that they were undemocratic. If principles established after World War II were used today, justice for war crimes in Vietnam and Cambodia would be administered by the victorious governments in those countries...