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...success of Vietnamization depends on the stability of the South Vietnamese government, and the report indicates that President Nguyen Van Thieu's regime is becoming more effective, if not more popular. But it adds that Thieu himself is considered "increasingly autocratic, secretive and isolated." Despite foreign suggestions that he seek wider political backing, many of Thieu's critics believe he will not move in that direction as long as he can count on U.S. support. Besides, there is doubt that many opposition politicians would be willing to join Thieu's regime. Nonetheless, Thieu has made major efforts...
...anything, increase. The U.S. embassy staff of 270 may be trimmed slightly for budgetary reasons as the U.S. presence in Viet Nam diminishes. But the 900 Americans administering U.S. economic-aid and social-welfare projects are likely to need more help as the U.S. provides South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu with the stepped-up material aid he requested at a press conference earlier this month...
...indication that Hanoi is thinking more than ever of a protracted struggle rather than a quick victory came recently from Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, hero of the victory over the French at Dienbienphu. Writing in two North Vietnamese political journals, Giap offered no hope for the swift, decisive victory he had promised in his 1961 book, People's War, People's Army. "Our people will certainly win," he wrote, but he cautioned that "we must have time." North Viet Nam, he said, was fighting under severe disadvantages and would have to settle for a strategy of "fighting...
...composed of teenagers. What is more, many of the Northerners are being sent to the southernmost Mekong Delta, a sector that is unfamiliar to them but is rapidly becoming one of the most crucial areas of the war. To bolster South Viet Nam's defenses there, President Nguyen Van Thieu last week replaced two top military commanders in the Delta. The North, determined to discredit President Nixon's Vietnamization plan, has ordered two full regiments and possibly parts of three others into the area to confront Saigon's forces. The result has indeed posed a problem...
...Essays. With the financial help of political friends, including General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, Publisher Chung awarded modest cash prizes to runners-up and ran the top 75 essays in his paper. Neither his pals nor his prose won him much favor with the regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Two weeks ago, on a charge of "promoting neutralism," Thieu's censors closed down the Voice of the People indefinitely. That action in itself is an eloquent essay on the war in Viet...