Word: non-communist
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...process prove to aggressors from Peking to Havana that so-called wars of liberation will not be allowed to succeed. With that in mind, the maximum immediate U.S. goal is to suppress the Viet Cong rebellion, push out the North Vietnamese invaders, preserve South Viet Nam's non-Communist status-and win solid guarantees that the situation will stay stable. The maximum Communist goal, of course, is just the opposite: throw out the Americans, depose the Thieu-Ky government, and establish a regime controlled by the Viet Cong. The V.C. would then unify with the North and support...
...along those lines was heightened by Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who told a radio audience that there was a strong chance of a split within the Viet Cong's political arm, the National Liberation Front. "It may be that at some future date," he said, "some of the non-Communist members of the N.L.F. may very well want to be brought into a government and may very well be the very ones we have to negotiate with...
...reason why Washington felt it necessary to issue that reassurance was the recent arrest in Saigon of an alleged Viet Cong agent who had supposedly met secretly with U.S. officials. Last week, a U.S. source in Saigon said that the man was actually a CIA agent working with non-Communist elements of the N.L.F...
Ceausescu no doubt wanted the presidency partly because it would give him more stature when traveling abroad. It would also make it easier for him to visit non-Communist countries. He has gradually moved Rumania away from Moscow's orbit and toward closer ties with the West, and last week publicly criticized Russia for hampering trade relations in retaliation for Rumania's independent stance...
...amenable" to Washington. But American policy makers question this point. Said one State Department official, "If malleability were the test, Plaza would be a far worse choice for us than the other two. We could probably control them far more easily." He pointed out that Plaza comes from the non-Communist Latin American nation which has given the United States the most trouble in the past year. Ecuador has demanded the withdrawal of our ambassador from Quito. We complied. And it was Ecuador's President Arismendi who delivered a stinging attack on U.S. economic imperialism in Latin America...