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SUCH an agreement is intended as a basis for the destruction of the NLF as a political force capable of assuming national power. Huntington argues that it would reduce NLF power in cities (which he views as crucial to long-run success): would undermine the image of the NLF as a competing national government; and would provide a means of re-integrating NLF-controlled areas into U. S.-Saigon dominance...
...last point is particularly important. If the NLF attempted to isolate the areas it controlled from the rest of the country, it would face severe problems of communication, organization, and transportation, Alternately, if goods from outside NLF-controlled areas were allowed free circulation (the development of a capitalist market), and if the growth of entrepreneurial opportunities was permitted (the development of business elites), then the NLF-controlled areas would undergo social changes that would link them to areas controlled by Saigon. Changing social forces would produce parallel changes in the balance of political forces...
...paper are built upon them. Huntington proposes that the U. S. concentrate on the structure of the political institutions and electoral mechanisms that will be developed: "The U. S. can play a major role in shaping rules of the game through its negotiations with Hanoi and the NLF and through advice...
District size, electoral qualifications, the size of the upper and lower houses of the national assembly are all discussed. So long as a relatively democratic appearance can be maintained, then the arrangements which will produce long-term stability free from NLF control are viewed as most desirable. One paragraph contains the essence of this line of thought...
...Single-member districts produce less proportional results than multi-member districts. They greatly over-represent the strongest party. If we can be sure that party is not the NLF, the system is fine. But how can we be sure...