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...that note of disagreement, the 150th plenary session of the Paris peace talks began. It slightly increased the hope that the Communists might be returning to Paris with "a new approach." Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the N.L.F. chief delegate, stood fast on the Viet Cong's seven-point plan, which insists upon a total U.S. withdrawal by a set date, the resignation of South Viet Nam's Nguyen Van Thieu and the establishment of a coalition government in Saigon that would include the Communists and supervise new elections...
...simpler (and cheaper) method is to buy false documents that entitle the bearer to a legitimate deferment. There are papers available for a price saying that one's father has been killed by the Viet Cong or that one is the only remaining son in a family. A mother who has lost her only son in combat may sell his identity papers to a willing customer. One 19-year-old bought the papers of a 14-year-old; he beat the draft but wound up back in elementary school...
Lacking money or the will to mutilate himself, a man can turn himself in as a former Viet Cong agent, which will draw him six months in a reindoctrination camp. Combat evaders can even join the army and still find ways to avoid active duty. One man paid an officer 100,000 piasters for the privilege of joining the Regional Force. Each month he goes down to headquarters to sign the pay book; he gives the officer his entire salary plus a cut of the wage he makes at his regular job. The thousands of soldiers who do nothing more...
Nguyen Thi Binh, Viet Cong foreign minister, said the ceasefire called for again Thursday by U.S. negotiator Willilam J. Porter and Saigt.s Pham Dang Lam "does not aim at ending the war, but simply at legalizing the Nguyen Van Thieu administration and the American military presence, while depriving the South Vietnamese people of the legitimate right to self defense...
...were some decided signs of unease emanating from the Presidential Palace in Saigon. They were primarily visible in President Nguyen Van Thieu's increasing use of -and demand for-arbitrary power. During the past 2½ months, his government has ordered the arrest of thousands of "suspected Viet Cong sympathizers," including virtually the entire student body of Hué University; arrests are continuing at the rate of 14,000 per month, though U.S. and Vietnamese officials maintain that most of those detained are quickly released. Thirty-two opposition groups issued a statement denouncing the campaign, but no Saigon newspaper...