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...Central Government. In some cases, the successes of pacification can be seen in quite striking fashion. Voter turnout in the 1967 presidential election as compared with the 1966 consituent assembly election increased by 50 percent in Binh Dinh province, 23 percent in Phu Yen, 22 percent in Hau Nghia and 20 percent in Binh Duong. These changes were undoubtedly the result of the strong pacification efforts made in those provinces...
...THESE SAME PROVINCES also illustrate the limits of pacification. When military forces were withdrawn from Binh Dinh and Hau Nghia, security rapidly began to deteriorate. The fragility of the whole pacification effort was reflected by the extent of its at least temporary collapse during the Tet offensive, despite the fact that the offensive was directed at the cities rather than the pacification cadres. The acid test of pacification is whether a locality develops the will and the means to defend itself against Viet Cong attack or infiltration. With a few exceptions, mostly among the communal groups, the current pacification effort...
...association with the Viet Cong-although all have neutralist or leftist backgrounds. Chairman Trinh Dinh Thao, 66, a Saigon lawyer and onetime partner of Nguyen Huu Tho, president of the N.L.F., was held at least once by Saigon authorities for championing peace movements unacceptable to the government; Thich Don Hau, the Alliance's vice chairman, was a leader of militant Buddhists in Hué. The other eight are students, teachers, a journalist and a woman doctor, who is the only known Communist in the group...
...front for their National Liberation Front: the Alliance of National Democratic and Peace Forces of Viet Nam. Since the South Vietnamese constitution bans Communist political parties, the Alliance is a showcase of socialist, pacifist and nationalist-but not openly Communist-South Vietnamese, including Thich Don Hau, the representative of the Buddhist church in Hue, who is one of its deputy chairmen. In recent weeks, its members have gone into hiding in the cities or quietly slipped away into the jungle to avoid arrest. The Alliance has proclaimed a platform that calls for the neutrality of North and South Viet...
Vietnamese units remain in the country, stretched from the outskirts of Hue and Danang in the north, southward to Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh and Phu Yen provinces, and northwest of Saigon in Hau Nghia and Tay Ninh provinces. To ferret them out, says Westmoreland, will take twice the time and twice the cost in casualties it would have taken to stop them at the frontier...