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...difficult to manipulate the prisoner of war issue. One reason is that since June a group of prisoners' wives has publicly stated their belief that their husbands remain imprisoned because Nixon views the maintenance of U.S. troops in South Vietnam as a prerequisite for the continued existence of the Thieu regime...
...Economics Minister Pham Kim Ngoc has been telling newsmen: "Phase I of Vietnamization, the military phase, has been successful. Now we will enter on Phase II, which will concentrate on making Viet Nam self-reliant and stable." Last week, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu launched that program with a crisp 40-minute speech to the Saigon legislature...
...effectively over, or it may be a kind of caesura in the apparently endless alternation of dry-season offensives and rainy-season resupply. In Saigon now, a vital concern is whether the South Vietnamese economy can be made less dependent on U.S. aid; early this week, President Nguyen Van Thieu is expected to announce economic reforms aimed at that goal...
...provisional administration, not a provisional coalition, of the various social, political and religious forces in South Vietnam--regardless of their pasts but who now favor peace and national concord--would displace the Thieu regime. Binh did not rule out Thieu's participation in the provisional administration; a person who does not favor "peace, independence and neutrality" may participate, but the provisional administration will favor those goals...
...accumulate military strength, alliances and foreign troops with which to overwhelm the other. However, the July 1 plan does not rule out acceptance of foreign military and economic aid by either zone; that is, prior to final agreement on reunification none of the armies presently in combat--including President Thieu's army--would be cut off from its source of supply...