Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of a guerrilla war, a cease-fire is a grave disadvantage to those forces that are in place." A fixed deadline for withdrawal, he believes, would end any incentive Hanoi now has to negotiate a settlement; he would agree to a specific timetable only if North Viet Nam agreed to pull its forces out on the same schedule...
Senator Barry Goldwater had a plan of his own: resumption of U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam on Nov. 1 if the Paris negotiations remain deadlocked. A fellow Arizona Republican, Representative Sam Steiger, enlisted 14 House members to sign a letter to Nixon demanding "a sudden major escalation of the war with one aim?victory!" Cavalry calls such as this had a pro forma ring; no one in Washington expects Nixon even to consider them seriously...
...commanders like General Ngo Quang Truong of the ARVN 1st Division might turn into the equivalent of feudal warlords, carving out fiefdoms of their own. The staunchest antiCommunists, like Nguyen Cao Ky, might well fight on, backed primarily by French-trained senior army officers and Catholic refugees from the North. They could perhaps hold out for a time in scattered enclaves. In the end, though, the Communists would almost certainly gobble up the countryside piece by piece and destroy every last area of resistance. They could then reunite the country on their terms, although it is equally possible that they...
...clear danger. How much danger is a matter of speculation. Pessimistic observers, like Columnist Joseph Alsop?a frequent visitor to South Viet Nam and still a hawk?believe the victims of execution could number as many as 1,500,000. After the Communists came to power in the North in 1954, they slaughtered countless thousands of peasants in a misdirected program of land redistribution. During last year's Tet offensive, the Communists executed at least 3,000 noncombatants, including women and children, when they occupied...
...Viet Nam was to curb Communist Chinese expansion. Partly because of U.S. resistance, that expansion has been halted. China's influence on the rest of Asia has been decidedly weakened, though this is largely because of the disastrous internal paroxysms of the Cultural Revolution. Devout Communist that he is, North Korea's Kim II Sung takes no orders from China while he is perfectly willing to accept its material aid. There is reason to hope that a Communist Viet Nam would also show considerable independence of her giant neighbor; it has in the past. Thus, Communist power in Asia would...