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...recession worries officials of the Thieu regime. "I am not too worried about the economic situation for the rest of the year," says Economic Minister Pham Kim Ngoc, "but after that, if there's not a solution or Congress doesn't understand the need for economic aid, it will be serious." Such bleak forecasts, of course, are nothing new in Saigon. Yet even high government officials, who owe a large share of their remaining credibility to the hope of eventual prosperity in South Viet Nam, seem to realize that they cannot allow the downward economic spiral to continue...
Nguyen Thi Binh, Viet Cong foreign minister, said the ceasefire called for again Thursday by U.S. negotiator Willilam J. Porter and Saigt.s Pham Dang Lam "does not aim at ending the war, but simply at legalizing the Nguyen Van Thieu administration and the American military presence, while depriving the South Vietnamese people of the legitimate right to self defense...
Future Plans. Pham Van Dong, the Premier, who has stayed on in Hanoi, told a journalist: "Of course they can blow all of this up [meaning his offices]. And then what? That's not what's going to change the course of history." Then he talks about the future: plans for travel abroad to establish ties for cooperation with all those who showed understanding for [North] Viet Nam during these terrible, decisive hours. In ministry files, partly evacuated to caves on high plateaus, are plans for the Viet Nam of tomorrow, "reunited by the Vietnamese alone," as Pham...
...Thus came the trade delegation, which will meet with Japanese political leaders, as well as with industrial tycoons. It is officially headed by the chief of the North Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce, Dang Thi. As it happens, though, he is also the principal aide to North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong...
...CAMBODIA'S FUTURE. "I have only two choices: to be a puppet of the U.S.A. or to have a Communist Cambodia-Communist but independent. There are independent Communist states. Inside they are Communist, but outside they are independent. Perhaps [North Vietnamese Premier] Pham Van Dong will make a good partner, as Tito does, for America...