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With incredible suddenness it was over, not only Viet Nam's agonizing Thirty Years' War but also a century of Western domination. The massive, 20-year American struggle to build a stable non-Communist government in South Viet Nam was finally and definitively ended, an all but total failure. When Communist soldiers in Saigon fired salvos into the air and shouted, "Victory! Victory!" the stubborn, inextinguishable dreams of Ho Chi Minh and his heirs in Hanoi were fully realized...
Privately, Minh and his advisers admit that elections may never take place. They would thus accept a government consisting of Communists, neutralists and token anti-Communists that would undoubtedly be dominated by the pro-Communist P.R.G. Nobody in Minh's camp believes that the Communists can be denied the lion's share of power, but a few believe that a political settlement will enable the non-Communists to exert some influence. "You can hope to have a solution that will give an opportunity to the non-Communist side to prepare for a new life," says a Minh adviser. "Forming...
Even as the U.S. waits expectantly for an upturn in its slumping economy, recession in much of the rest of the non-Communist world is deepening. Though some nations are hoping for the beginning of the end of hard times later this year, no abrupt reversal of the worldwide drop in production and rise in unemployment seems likely, largely because the slide is so widespread. The situation underscores the perils raised by the growing interdependence of key industrial countries. In an era when heavy world trade, the operations of multinational companies, and massive flows of money across international borders have...
Still, given the collapse of the military effort, opposition to Thieu's government is bound to increase, especially among Saigon's strongly non-Communist conservative groups. The day after the arrests, Ky and Father Thanh held a news conference to announce the formation of an Action Committee for National Salvation that would press Thieu to relinquish his near absolute power. None of the action committee sponsors favored an overthrow of Thieu; indeed, they seemed to believe that a coup would only further lessen public confidence in the government. But the conservative opposition argued that South Viet...
...arrests of right-wing oppositionists helped start a flurry of coup rumors in Saigon. But in fact there is only an outside chance of Thieu being removed by his present opponents. For one thing, the action committee is still not united with Saigon's other main non-Communist opposition force, the most militant Buddhists, who favor entering directly into a coalition government with the Communists. Neither Ky nor General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, an ex-chief of state who now leads the Buddhist opposition, seems to have enough of a personal following to succeed in replacing Thieu. Moreover...