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...chance for a people uprotted by war to return to their homes and to choose their own government. But the Provisional Revolutionary Government, the extension of the NLF, was denied access to the press and to free elections--both were provided for in the agreement. Land control in the PRG-controlled sectors moved ahead, there were no more privileged large landowners. But in areas controlled by the Thieu regime, there were no reforms: newspapers were--and continue to be--shut down; the people in some villages on the border of PRG-sectors were kept from going to their farms...
Marr said that gains by Saigon forces and continued U.S. support have convinced leaders of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (PRG) and North Vietnam that the United States is not going to follow the Paris agreement and end military and political involvement in South Vietnam without pressure...
...impression," Marr said, "is that military action against Saigon will increase in 1975," but he added that both the PRG and North Vietnam only want to defeat the Saigon forces to "demoralize them so they disband and return home...
...best cinematographers in America now--he did Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, In the Hest of the Night, American Graffiti, and Medium Cool. Here he's filming North Vietnam and the liberated sections of South Vietnam--shots of Hanol, and the ruined Bach Mai Hospital, PRG soldiers, interviews with Le Duc Tho and others. All of this was done on very low budget, narrated by Fonda and Hayden. Whodunit Festival. At the Orson Welles until the end of March is a batch of mystery movies, some good, some not so good, ranging from The Third Man and Touch...
There have been new governments in Saigon before, of course, but Duc insists this one will be different. When Thieu is overthrown, he says, "everyone will go on the streets and show their will for peace." The new government will have to implement the agreement. The PRG will stop attacking, because "they are not so stupid as not to know that with a government that will negotiate with them, they will lose the support of the whole population if they continue." Then it will be time for the United States to resume economic aid--military aid will no longer...