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Hanoi, for its part, still does not admit that it has troops in the South, although they are indisputably there. The Communists worry that if their forces withdraw, Saigon's troops would invade Viet Cong areas, break up the V.C. cadres and arrest suspect Communist sympathizers-thus guaranteeing an election result favorable to Thieu...
Neither Side. To be sure, there have been some notable changes since January. American G.I.s have gone home, prisoners have been exchanged, and Viet Cong officers-escorted always by South Vietnamese security troops-drive around Saigon. There is also the ineffectual presence of the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS), created to monitor the adherence of both sides to the truce. The Hungarian and Polish commission members, who consider themselves Hanoi's representatives, have employed dilatory and obstructionist tactics to prevent the Canadian and Indonesian members from investigating reported truce violations. Last week External Affairs Minister...
...strict cease-fire throughout South Viet Nam and a withdrawal of all troops from the Demilitarized Zone. More important, the two sides must exchange maps delineating the areas under their control. Next, the National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord must constitute itself to include representatives of the Viet Cong, the Thieu government and members of the so-called third party. Under the truce signed in January, this council should have been in operation by the end of April. One of its principal tasks is to prepare the way for a national election. Thieu, however, will oppose any attempt...
...years no foreign troops occupy Viet Nam. Now the revolution must be carried forward by political rather than military means. One Communist directive urges its cadres to work harder at building the economic and political infrastructure by growing rice and making villages self-sufficient. In some areas, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops spend at least half of each day planting crops and cutting wood...
This socially oriented industriousness is accompanied by an ideological soft-sell. Recently, for example, a Viet Cong unit in the Delta captured a 17-year-old boy and carried him off to a Communist-controlled area. Instead of forcibly drafting him into the army, cadre members talked to him for five days, showed him life on the "other side," and then asked him if he wanted to remain. When he declined, he was set free...