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...concludes that the most advantageous system for the U. S. and the GVN would be the "one-and-a-half party system," in which the NLF and its allies form a party of "permanent opposition" -one which holds a solid power base but is unable to capture control of the national administration in an election...
Although the report is now more than a year old, Huntington said that he felt many of the strategies it outlined were still valid. "I would favor a settlement which recognized the NLF's authority in territory it controls, because that's the case in reality," he said...
...WHILE I march with a group that looks like my Cambridge friends, with NLF flag and Right On With Weatherwomen banner, and am suddenly terribly homesick. It's been a long summer, my friends are scattered across the country. I'm walking alone down Fifth Ave., carrying a notebook. One of these women (I must admit, I don't really think of people my age as men and women, still) sees my notes, is suspicious. I mention the CRIMSON, but also the Post; she warns me. "This is not a bourgeois women's movement. It's OK to write something...
...thus worthy of attention, interesting for what it might point out about trends within American political science and within the foreign policy-making establishment. The paper, entitled "Getting Ready for Political Competition in South Vietnam," is a discussion of the political means available to the U. S. for preventing NLF dominance. In it Huntington examines various political settlements and goes on to investigate specific constitutional and electoral formulas...
...settlement that Huntington advocates rests on an exchange: local control in certain areas for the NLF, national dominance for the Government of Vietnam, the GVN, The feasibility of this settlement depends on the ability of the U. S. to convince the NLF that it would have a chance for national power, but to at the same time make such an outcome unlikely. In return for local control (no ARVN troops, no reversal of NLF land tenure decrees, local control over taxes, and acknowledgment of NLF military units as legitimate inside the areas), the NLF is expected to approve the following...