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Above all, the United States is faced with the problem of protecting its friends in South Vietnam from the blood-bath and chaos which immediate withdrawal would invite. Hoping for something better than a government with significant NLF representation is unreasonable, but the United States must insist on a solution which guarantees the Saigon regime and its supporters a political stability in which they can live without fear of reprisal...
...caught because of its basic misconception of its role in world affairs. Licht and LaRocca see escape from the circle in total withdrawal of U.S. forces and a Vietnam government led by the National Liberation Front. Many American liberals, however, might object to their designation of the NLF as the sole legitimate representative of the South Vietnamese people...
...various discussions by Ambassadors Harriman and Goldberg has been a fourteen-point memorandum entitled "The Heart of the Matter in Vietnam," which gathers together all of the President's former demands. Johnson has still refused even to hint at any compromise about the political future of the NLF, the substance of point three of Hanoi's four-point program. Thus the "new diplomacy" appears aimed at achieving traditional U.S. objectives through new and more up-dated techniques...
...might look on our neighborhood as the NLF, the Neighborhood Liberation Front, fighting against the social injustices imposed by the ruling class," Goldin explains, smiling like an Asian revolutionary looking back at the good old days in the hillside caves...
Also, last July a high Viet Cong agent told Prof. Robert Brown of Farleigh Dickinson College that the NLF would agree to district by district elections to form a coalition government. The offer was later made officially to Saigon. On August 28, the South Vietnamese chief of state, Major General Van Thieu, replied: "The terms neutrality and democratic coalition, a pet phrase of Communists everywhere, reveal more clearly their real evil intentions and their desperate condition...