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...last testament, will once again find a secure place in a secure social fabric. And because that fabric is no longer continually frayed by rifle-fire, members of every social class will at last be able to go about their business in peace. City workers, businessmen and shopkeepers, even Saigon government employees (many of them have apparently been kept on by the Provisional Revolutionary Government)--all will benefit from freedom from the specter of bombs and rockets, and from having a government with wide popular support, committed to equality and to industrial and agricultural development...
...OVER A decade now. American policy-makers and political commentators have warned of the bloodbath that would follow an NLF victory. It is true that the NLF has on occasion assassinated officials of the Saigon government--generally carefully selected officials, hated outsiders foisted upon villagers by a remote Saigon administration. More rarely, NLF forces have resorted to more indiscriminate terror--as in the nearly legendary and possibly mythical Hue massacre of 1968, or PRG forces' unconscionable shelling of Saigon slums last week. But lacking the unlimited support, up-to-date military equipment, and direct military intervention of a wealthy patron...
...Catholic clergy's choosing to remain in NLF-held areas as they did not in 1954, and the reports of newspaper people and refugees about NLF-held cities where life is said to have returned to normal. It seems likely that the PRG will retaliate only against high-ranking Saigon officials personally responsible for large-scale torture and for continuing the war. Most of these people have probably already found well-financed refuge on Taiwan or in the United States. But even if the PRG retaliated also against the thousands of ordinary Vietnamese who had ties of one sort...
When the repressive character and ineffectiveness of Diem's government became apparent to American liberals, the United States became the main support of a series of equally repressive and ineffective Saigon governments. That the repression and ineffectiveness were more than accidents--that they were two necessary consequences of the popular support and increasing strength of the NLF--was a secret carefully kept from the American people, just as their government's massive bombing of neutral Cambodia would be kept a secret at a later stage of the war. But just as the Cambodians would know they were being bombed...
...Vietnamese into submission. In April 1973, Time magazine reports. Richard Nixon gave orders to resume the bombing of North Vietnam, rescinding them when he learned that John W. Dean III had been talking to the Watergate prosecutors. Gerald Ford continued to plead for more military aid to the Saigon government that had signed a peace agreement providing for civil and political rights for all Vietnamese, then continued to hold tens of thousands of political prisoners in its jails, while stepping up its attacks on PRG-held areas until counter-offensives compelled it to stop...