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...most strongly anti-Communist regions of Viet Nam. Hanoi and the P.R.G. will probably not risk pressing immediately for a system of government that would outrage hundreds of thousands of people. The Communists in fact might legitimately fear a reversal of the past 20 years: former Saigon supporters harassing a Communist government much as Communist guerrillas used to harass Saigon. As one Hungarian official of the I.C.C.S. said privately last week, "The imposition of a Communist government in Saigon would mean civil war." A French official in Paris had the same opinion: "Sure the Viet Cong could take Saigon...
...smoothly that there were rumors of a deal between the Communists and the Saigon government. Thieu, it was said, had given up the territory in exchange for the safety of the population-a story emphatically denied by Saigon. In any case, there were some reports of Communist efforts to harass the flow of refugees. One 1,200-truck convoy of defeated troops and fleeing civilians crawling southeast from Pleiku toward the coast was attacked by rebel Montagnard groups. Total casualties...
...Paris embassy officials knew for weeks that Quilapayun's members belonged to the Communist Youth Organization in Chile and were avid supporters of the Allende regime. But in a deliberate move to harass the group, the embassy waited until the last minute to declare them members of the Communist Party, necessitating State Department intervention before the group could enter the United States...
...keep the UFW and its organizers out of the fields. The Teamsters made large and illegal contributions to the Nixon re-election fund; Charles Colson wrote memos instructing the National Labor Relations Board, the Justice Department and the Labor Department to stay out of the dispute unless they could harass the UFW. Nixon made a point of publicly eating non-UFW grapes...
...department chairman also said, "No attempt has been made by our department to harass White out of the department...