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...start of "the process of political accommodation" at the bottom, capitalizing on the various local accommodations which already existed between the Viet Cong and local government forces...
...South Vietnam as I observed it; my prescriptive "policy recommendations" were entirely different. In a similar factual vein, my article also described the extent to which no significant changes had taken place or were taking place in the relative distribution of political control in the countryside among the Viet Cong, the government, and the communal groups...
...when I arrived in Vietnam. In the light of these conditions, what could be the route toward political settlement? An end to the fighting, it seemed to me, would have to reflect the twin realities of the increase in the urban population and the continuing control by the Viet Cong of a significant portion of the countryside. "Peace in the immediate future," I concluded, "must be based on accommodation." The title of my article was "The Bases of Accommodation" and its central theme was the need for accommodation between the warring sides. I argued in my article that in order...
...Thanh Tay, 7,000 refugees are crowded into an area hardly big enough for a dozen water buffalo. Thanh Tay is known as a "temporary resettlement camp," but it has been in use since 1965, when the fishing village of Cam Hai was overrun by the Viet Cong. Its people now live in four long, tin-roofed sheds, in cubicles divided off like horse stalls; six to ten people occupy each stall. Ironically, peace has already returned to their former village, but their houses are occupied by the 2nd Korean Brigade, so the refugees will not be able...
ALGERIA. More than 20 "national liberation fronts" and assorted movements maintain offices or representatives in Algiers, which has won the reputation of being the "home of revolutionaries." These groups include Al-Fatah, the Viet Cong, the Angolan resistance movement (M.P.L.A.) and the Black Panthers, whose local office is presided over by Eldridge Cleaver. There is even a representative for a group known as the Movement for the Autodetermination and Independence of the Canary Islands, which have belonged to Spain since the 15th century. "Catholics go to Rome," remarked an Algerian official, "Moslems to Mecca, and revolutionaries come to Algiers...