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This situation could not last long without prompting resistance. When the Viet Minh began mobilizing in the early 1940s, land reform was at the top of its agenda. And similarly, when the U.S.-backed Ngo Dinh Diem regime refused in the late 1950s to implement a serious land reform program to redress the century-old grievance, peasants in the south began to resist, forming the National Liberation Front in 1960. Today, the Thieu regime has reversed its faltering steps toward land reform and handed back vast tracts to the former owners, while reforms in the NLF-controlled areas...
When the U.S.-sponsored Ngo Dinh Diem regime stepped up its repression in the South in the late 1950's, peasants left their plows and rice paddies and villages and joined the National Liberation Front. In the late 1960's peasants who had never seen a television set or a washing machine, who had never visited a city, successfully resisted the American war machine. They alternately evaded and defeated U.S. ground troops; they shot down American warplanes with rifles and with their bare hands rebuilt bombed-out bridges and roads...
...There would be complete financial disclosure of the salaries of all appointees of the Harvard Corporation, as well as of informal additions to these salaries in the form of per diem travel allowances and other perquisites...
...foreigners. Bao Dai, the first head of state of Vietnam to be recognized by the western powers, was at heart a Frenchman. He spent most of his time at his villa in France, and when in Vietnam he lived in regal European style. Bao Dai, the Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem, and the other would-be westerners who have ruled South Vietnam in succeeding years are barely thought of as Vietnamese. So it is hardly surprising that they would join forces with foreign armies against their own people...
President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had backed Diem's overthrow, helped defray the costs of the commemoration with a $1,000 contribution, presumably in hopes of using the incipient Diem cult to solidify non-Communist ranks within the country. He is in no danger of being overthrown as Diem was. But growing economic problems at home, along with the continuing threat of a North Vietnamese military offensive, mean Thieu needs all the help...