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Saigon, under U.S. pressure, apparently has accepted these terms. Hanoi too is amenable, perhaps because it has already replaced most of the materiel it expended during the 1972 Easter offensive. The North also seems to have shifted its strategy. Its party line these days is that a great victory has been won, since for the first time in 115 years no foreign troops occupy Viet Nam. Now the revolution must be carried forward by political rather than military means. One Communist directive urges its cadres to work harder at building the economic and political infrastructure by growing rice and making...
...There were hints that B-52s-which last week hit Laotian targets for the first time since late February -mightsoon be in action over South Viet Nam once again. For the U.S., that would be an exceedingly risky tactic; in addition to troops and materiel, the Communists have moved SAM-2 missiles down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into territory they control...
...based on a real incident in Uruguay, the kidnaping and killing of a U.S. AID official fictionally named Philip Michael Santore (Yves Montand). Santore is kidnaped by a group of radical leftists and accused, along with the U.S. Government, of actively supporting the repressive regime by furnishing materiel and by taking police officials Stateside and training them in the techniques of political manipulation and torture. Santore is not tortured, only politely questioned and held for ransom: the freeing of all Montevidean political prisoners. The government, operating through a paralegal police death squad, rounds up some of the revolutionaries; the others...
...fighters obtained on a crash basis from Iran, Taiwan and South Korea, into South Viet Nam in an effort to give the ARVN more muscle before a cease-fire goes into effect. The Communists are trying equally hard to beat the deadline by rushing troop reinforcements and as much materiel as possible down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Neither side wants to be at a disadvantage when the dance ends and the fire goes...
...test of the Nixon Doctrine that the U.S. will support its Asian allies if they provide most of the manpower for their own defense. Second, Nixon was vulnerable to a Soviet response that might end his cherished plan for a Moscow summit in May; the U.S.S.R. has provided the materiel for Hanoi's offensive, and there were Russian ships in Haiphong harbor during the American attack. And third, on the home front, Nixon risked alienating all over again the large numbers of Americans who were baffled, vexed or outraged by his last dramatic initiative in behalf of Vietnamization...