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...supervise the ceasefire. As Vance sees it, there are a number of built-in advantages to his proposal. For one thing, it would leave each side in control of what it now has. Such control might lead to elections in which neither the Viet Cong nor the government of Nguyen Van Thieu would risk a total loss of power. Vance's expectation is that the Communists would win elections where they now have military and administrative control and that Saigon would control the cities and the central government...
...ease the situation, President Nguyen Van Thieu last week decreed a package of reforms aimed at cutting inflation to 15% next year-a dubious proposition. His most significant move was to devalue the piaster-sort of. He established a "parallel rate" structure under which his country's currency will still be valued at 118 piasters to the dollar rate for "necessity" imports, but 275 to the dollar for luxury imports. A canny political device, the parallel rate will increase prices-and government revenues-on such imports as TV sets and refrigerators, while keeping prices down on essential imports...
...often said to reflect the theories of Mao, Ho Chi Minh and General Vo Nguyen Giap. To the extent that he sought to establish a rural, peasant base for revolution, that is true. His Bolivian papers, however, betray a pervasive Stalinist influence. Che sneered at the late Sociologist C. Wright Mills (The Marxists) for his "stupid anti-Stalinism," describing him as "a clear example of North American leftist intellectuals." He dismissed New Left Ideologue Herbert Marcuse because his concepts "are of little relevance in the national liberation struggle and nation-building as it had to be carried out under Stalin...
North Vietnamese Ambassador Xuan Thuy called the plan "an electoral gift certificate." Nguyen Thi Binh of the Viet Cong said the proposals were a means of "legalizing American aggression in Indochina...
...against the propagation of Communism in Asia and most particularly in Southeast Asia," declared Sihanouk. "But it would be pure hypocrisy to assert that the United States is defending the highest interests of the Indochinese people in preventing at all costs regimes like those of Lon Nol and of Nguyen Cao Ky from falling to Communism, using for that purpose bombs and napalm and an apocalyptic destruction of the countries and peoples concerned...