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...negotiations, the key issue is likely to be the future political role of the Viet Cong. They are certain to demand several Cabinet seats, and there are those who feel that the U.S. must be just as certain to refuse. "If you give the Viet Cong the Interior Ministry," says one senior U.S. diplomat, "that means you lose. If you give them anything less, it's meaningless." But the U.S. is willing to see the Viet Cong get some political representation. The State Department has indicated as much. The V.C. certainly might be recognized as a political party...
...their villages for years and, although under increasing military pressure, their political infrastructure remains essentially intact. For the central government, the problem is not merely rooting out that infrastructure, but also creating an effective anti-Communist substitute. This the government has been unable to do, partly because the Viet Cong have so coolly assassinated practically every mayor, doctor, teacher or engineer who opposed them in areas that they dominate...
...basis for compromise might be that the Viet Cong would lay down their arms and agree to stop their violence in return for political rights-much as the French Communists did in a deal with De Gaulle in 1945. Then, in the next South Vietnamese election in 1970, the Viet Cong could put up candidates for office, along with the non-Communist parties. There is some doubt that many Reds would want to run for office in government-controlled areas-city people tend to equate the Viet Cong with assassins, and quite a few have old scores to settle. Though...
...Communists to control some districts and compete in others would work only if the North VietNamese troops left the country. A massive stumbling block here is that nobody can conceive of an effective means to guarantee that the Northerners get out and stay out, or that the Viet Cong really halt their terror. That job is supposed to be done now by the three-nation International Control Commission (Canada, India, Poland), a leftover from the Geneva Conference of 1954. But the commission lacks the manpower, vehicles and-on the part of its Polish and Indian members-the will...
...issue of reunification, it is becoming less emotional and more negotiable than before. North Viet Nam still views it as a means to take over the less populous South (17 million people, v. 19 million in the North). But the Viet Cong seem less than eager to be swallowed by the North. Through their representatives in Paris, Algiers, Bratislava and even Hanoi, the V.C. have announced that reunification should take place step by step, over a period of five to 20 years. All this pleases Viet Nam's smaller, frightened neighbors, some of whom use the same maxim that...