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...NATIONAL LIBERATION Front is the only political organization in southern Vietnam that represents the aspirations of the Vietnamese people for social justice, national independence and reunification with North Vietnam. Although the shooting war has diminished in intensity and U.S. warplanes no longer are bombing Vietnam into oblivion, the NLF still needs--and merits--support from people in this country...
...effecting extensive land reform appealed to peasants oppressed by an inequitable colonial land tenure system. Its courageous resistance to the American war also attracted widespread support. But now terror bombing has herded many of the peasants into the cities, where Thieu's police can watch over them and make NLF efforts difficult. The extent of this forced urbanization is telling: southern Vietnam, 20 per cent urban in the early 1960s, is over 60 per cent urban today...
FORTUNATELY, the growing supports for the NLF did not force radicals to adopt tactics markedly different from those of liberals who fought the was on loftier, more abstract moral grounds. The goals for both groups was the same: an immediate end to American military involvement in Indochina. The liberals wanted the killing to stop; the radicals wanted the killing to stop and the NLF...
...then the sixties came, and the paper's politics drifted slowly leftward until The Crimson published an editorial on October 15, 1969 that made headlines in Paris--"Support the NLF...
Salvador Allende, the president of Chile, is always "Marxist President Allende" in these newspapers, yet they fail to make the logical extension--"Capitalist President Nixon." Also, the NLF are always "Communist snipers," which is not strictly true because they are not all "Communists." At any rate, these phrases should be accompanied by something like "Capitalist war planes" or, at the very least, "Free Enterprise war planes." One can be thankful for small favors, however; at least these papers have for the most part stopped calling the Khmer Rouge or the NLF "the enemy...