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...give them the news: not only would U.S. advisers accompany ARVN troops into Cambodia, but the American-led Fishhook attack would be staged a day later as a second and even more unexpected jolt to the Communists. The orders were quickly passed to a delighted South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. As Nixon retired to the luxuriant White House Rose Garden to work on his speech, U.S. warplanes and artillery began softening up the sanctuaries...
...aware of the issue's importance, the Viet Cong have long made a point of redistributing land under their control. A succession of Saigon governments paid due obeisance to the ideal of land reform, but did nothing. Last week, in the Mekong Delta center of Can Tho, President Nguyen Van Thieu signed into law a land-reform bill that, he said, would help "each tenant to become a landowner enjoying a prosperous life. This will open a new era for the nation...
...boom is backfiring, with an impact that threatens major trouble for President Nixon's Vietnamization program. Unless Saigon can pay more of the bills-as well as do more of the fighting-South Viet Nam will never really be able to stand on its own. Last fall President Nguyen Van Thieu took some halting steps toward economic reform, imposing taxes as high as 280% on some 1,500 imported consumer items; Hondas, for example, doubled in price...
Though South Viet Nam's National Assembly has occupied Saigon's neo-Romanesque Opera House for more than two years, the old building has not suffered from a dearth of drama. Most recently it has been the principal site of President Nguyen Van Thieu's bareknuckle campaign to silence his opposition in the Assembly. Last week the performance reached a climax...
...guess is that the Communists would have liked to create a flurry," a high-ranking U.S. general said, "but they just weren't up to it." President Nguyen Van Thieu told TIME that the foe may now be in a transition period, de-escalating from all-out warfare to protracted guerrilla fighting. But Thieu does expect a sizable attack just before the elections next fall...