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...trumpeted North Viet Nam's official daily, Nhan Dan, "a festival of the completion of national reunification." In Hanoi and Saigon, as well as scores of other cities, towns and hamlets in between, streets and squares were festooned with banners and painted maps that showed North and South with all demarcation lines removed-and Hanoi prominently marked as the capital. Called out by Communist ward bosses-and, in Saigon, by the pealing bells of the city's churches-some 11 million Vietnamese trooped to the polls clutching pink voter-registration cards to elect the new, 492-member National...
Outworn Welcome. The P.R.G.'s decision to get rid of foreign newsmen appears to reflect a Communist belief that for the moment at least, less news or no news is good news. However, the P.R.G.'s public explanations have been vague. One polite official, Bui Huu Nhan, of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, told ten-year Saigon Veteran George Esper, "You have been here too long under the old regime. We want new people of our choice...
...chance that Thieu's successor might be a strong nationalist who would try to rally the armed forces for a last-ditch stand against the Communists. A bloody battle for Saigon would then become inevitable-as would its outcome. Despite the hyperbole, Hanoi's party newspaper Nhan Dan was probably correct when it boasted: "Wherever our army advances, it smashes and disintegrates all of the enemy...
...government should consist of representatives of the present South Vietnamese regime, the National Liberation Front and a neutral third party; that would obviously set the stage for an accommodation between the Communists and the other factions in the government once the Americans departed. But the official North Vietnamese newspaper Nhan Dan suggested last week that Hanoi would accept "necessary measures to ensure that neither side dominates the political life in South Viet Nam," at least for a transitional period. In that case, the North Vietnamese would be bridgeably close to President Nixon's proposal of last May. He offered...
...Hanoi's chief negotiator at the Paris peace talks, recently conceded, in a definite understatement, that "Mr. Nixon's actions of intensifying the war naturally cause certain difficulties and losses to the North Vietnamese people." More surprisingly, North Viet Nam's official party newspaper Nhan Dan recently admitted quite openly that the bombing had caused "very serious economic problems...