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Last month a secret radio station in the region around Hue began broadcasting well-documented reports of rallies against Thieu. On September 14 a second station close to Saigon joined in. The NLF expressed great surprise in its own broadcasts, because no group--religious, students, or military--has the facilities in Saigon to broadcast without detection. Experts guess that a mobile transmitter is involved. The only group which is known to possess one of these expensive, hard-to-come-by devices...
...continuity of oppressiveness among all the governments fighting the National Liberation Front hardly entered into Shipler's articles, though it certainly seems to suggest that the oppressiveness has roots deeper than General Thieu's personal idiosyncracies--roots in popular support for the NLF, for example. Like Ford's policy pronouncements, and unlike the articles of the Times's other Vietnam reporter, James M. Markham, Shipler's articles were based on an unconsidered assumption that the NLF couldn't possibly speak for the people of South Vietnam, and merits suppression by any means necessary. Working from this assumption, Shipler spends...
...lives of Rubin's Rhade are no longer determined just by their own actions, even combined with the weather and the poverty and lack of sanitation that kill their children. Outsiders affect their lives too, now--Buc, the barber who joined the NLF when he learned that the Saigon government was encouraging men to grow their hair long; Sergeant Culpepper, the medic who solemnly affirms that American medicine is as good as scorpion urine; Colonel Quoc, ambitious and rising fast in the Saigon command but terrified of his astrology chart and unwilling to endanger his career by resisting an NLF...
LIKE PEOPLE elsewhere, Vietnamese sometimes use poetry to express political intent. The following poem--recently, published by the National Liberation Front--appears to mark an important turning point: the NLF has decided to go on the offensive against Thieu's maneuvers to sabotage the peace agreement...
...important, under your leadership, The Crimson constantly reminded us of the continual destruction wrought by our country in Southeast Asia. Though I believe you have romanticized the role of the NLF, you have been on target in your denunciation of the corrupt and repressive Thieu regime...