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...1950s, the Viet Cong cut a wide swath through the Vietnamese countryside by importing Ho Chi Minh's formula of routing the landlords and distributing "land to the tiller." Today, the leading advocate of Ho's thesis is none other than President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...farming families have been awarded titles to 1,560,000 acres of land, mostly private tracts that they had previously tilled as tenant farmers. At year's end, farming by landless tenant families will have virtually ceased in South Viet Nam. That means, as Thieu said last week at a Farmer's Day celebration at Bien Hoa, "a new way of life, a prosperous and dignified life...
Unhappily, Thieu's plan may be about 15 years late...
...continue the offensive in order to persuade Nixon to give us genuine peace with total respect for our rights to self-determination. Nixon's peace proposal means that the Viet Cong must put down their weapons and go to the elections naked, while [South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van] Thieu will have his army and his police to pressure the people of South Viet Nam." The North Vietnamese, Sihanouk emphasized, link the end of Vietnamization and of U.S. support for Thieu with any settlement. A withdrawal of U.S. troops in return for an exchange of prisoners is not acceptable...
...October 22, 1971, eleven days after the U.S. privately delivered its peace plan to the North Vietnamese, the Saigon government of President Nguyen Van Thieu publicly bragged that it would assassinate its opponents in the PRG (Provisional Revolutionary Government). As they "lay down their arms" prior to elections organized under the framework of the present Saigon government all members of the PRG infrastructure and military forces would be wiped...