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Enemy tanks captured the northern section of the town Thursday, but An Loc's defenders reported they drove the Vietcong from all but two blocks of the provincial capital last night. President Nguyen Van Thieu ordered the remaining 12,000 man government force to hold the town at all costs...
...chaos and destruction which the war has caused in Vietnam and in this country, the issue at stake is a relatively simple one: whether the American client regime of Nguyen Van Thieu will be allowed to impose its political will on the people of South Vietnam. This has been the central issue of the Paris negotiations, and it is the crux of the current stalemate. The position held by North Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government in the South is that the Thieu regime must give way to a neutral coalition government which will then supervise elections in South Vietnam...
...REMAINS FOR the Vietnamese to accomplish what no antiwar movement in this country has been able to do: to rid South Vietnam of the Thieu regime and end American involvement in Indochina. Yet that does not diminish the feeling that our support for the North Vietnamese in the time of their greatest anguish and trial must be strong and convincing. The Vietnamese fighters whom American planes are bombing are not our enemies: they are the only progressive force in South Vietnam. It is time we realized this, and put our realization into practice. And the time has long since arrived...
...Fence. Thieu's program has had its share of problems. Soldiers grumble that they cannot get into the program because they are unable to till land while they are in the army. Landlords complain that government compensation is slow. Ultimate success depends on the ability of the Saigon government to provide military security; a test of that ability loomed last week, as North Vietnamese forces around the Demilitarized Zone and in the central highlands launched a series of attacks that could be the prelude to the long-awaited Communist offensive...
...push the guy sitting on the fence toward the government," notes Jack Riggs, an American adviser. The corollary is that, poorly managed, a reform program can also force the guy back into the hands of the hungry V.C. recruiter. But there is one good indication that Thieu is pushing in the right direction: the Viet Cong have mounted a vigorous propaganda campaign against his program...