Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...north spread, General Nam toured the command area, reassuring his troops that they need not fear such a disorderly withdrawal." In sharp contrast, the South Vietnamese commander in the Saigon area, General Nguyen Van Hoan, is generally regarded by Western military observers as not only incompetent but hopelessly corrupt as well. The strong showing by Xuan Loc's defenders also indicates that ARVN is still capable of fighting back. Diplomats in Saigon with close ties to the Communists have indicated that Hanoi is "very much aware of the consequences" of a frontal attack on the South Vietnamese capital. Translated...
...theory that "We should cease supporting the corrupt governments of Lon Nol and Thieu"-no one seems to notice how thousands upon thousands of Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees prefer those "corrupt" governments to the alternative...
...Vietnam will be under the control of a movement that began among and has been nurtured by its own people. If the NLF's past actions are any indication, it is likely to bring massive reforms in income and land distribution to a nation that has been ruled by corrupt foreign controlled governments...
...mind of President Ford, a knee-jerk anti-considering, and his advisers. The Ford administration's position seems to be a reactive one not well thought-out or borne out by past experience. It involves urging huge amounts of military aid for a government that has been consistently unpopular corrupt and suppressive of the basic freedom of its citizens and that has been consistently unable to hold any power in times when it has not been propped up by millions of dollars from America. American military aid has always brought suppression and violence to the people of Vietnam...
...heal the wounds of Indochina, and it is time for the U.S. to recognize the failure of its foreign policy in Vietnam and Cambodia. When Congress makes the final decision on U.S. military and to Cambodia and Vietnam on April 10 it should say "no" to support for their corrupt regime and it should say "no" to continuing the strife of those peoples who have not known peace on self determination in two generations...