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...information about areas it has taken over in South Vietnam, and it is saying that things have returned to normal in cities it captured only weeks ago. That kind of incomplete report isn't much to go on, but it is consistent with virtually all past reports about the NLF-that it quickly resettles areas, that it is rarely retributive toward the people in areas it takes over, that it especially looks after children. The much publicized suffering in South Vietnam appears exaggerated by the West, and it appears to be worst in areas controlled by the American supported South...
...NLF's sketchy reports, in fact, seem to show the way toward the only hope for a nation that has struggled for centuries toward nationalism and self-determination. The ongoing conquest of Vietnam by communist and allied forces is as morally good a thing as there can be in a nation where war has made all situations infinitely complex. It will mean, if nothing else that Vietnam will be under the control of a movement that began among and has been nurtured by its own people. If the NLF's past actions are any indication, it is likely to bring...
...tragedy it may spawn, the communist conquest, seem in the context of the past decade's events there is the best recent news from Vietnam. For conquering armies the North Vietnamese and NLF have been unusually nonviolent, especially by comparison to the Americans, and South Vietnamese--although it is easy to be nonviolent when one's enemy isn't putting up a fight. They have taken most of South Vietnam with very little bloodshed and they have not used at all the Americans' most brutal tool of war--mass bombings of civilian and military areas in the cities and countryside...
...American government should in thinking about ways to help Vietnam discard the idea that what is happening there now is a tragedy or that the people of Vietnam need protection from communism. Mass evacuations of orphans--who would probably be cared for by the NLF better than they are by the publicity conscious government and of civilians who the NLF appears to have no intention of harming are not the answer. The United States has brought have and destruction to Vietnam and it owes the nation a tremendous debt--and-the best way to repay that debt is to accept...
...fact that his name is a palindrome. But the liberal papers, always less confident than their more consistent brothers, seem to have been held back by a guilty suspicion that their items might have something to do with past slaughter by the Unites States, or future killings by the NLF, or maybe both. While a Tribune reporter asked Ford if American involvement in Vietnam had been wasted, the Washington Post warned that a similar question--about whether American sacrifices had been "unwarranted" --involved "trifling with the deep sensibilities of the survivors of the 55,000 American dead." The Post didn...