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...treaty also calls for an American pledge "to end the imposition of the Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime on the people of South Vietnam in order to insure that all political prisoners are released...
Unqualified Success. Nixon announced a small increase of the troops to be withdrawn between May 1 and Dec. 1: from 12,500 to 14,300 each month. The timing will allow him to assess the stability of the Thieu government in the October elections and the capability of the Communists to renew offensives in the autumn-winter dry season. If extended, that rate would reduce U.S. involvement to 25,000 troops by Election Day and sharply reduce the cost of the war, though there would still be considerable expenditures (see following story). Nixon's reminder that he had campaigned...
...arrest provided the first lead in an unfolding scandal that has already embarrassed the regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Mrs. Quy, 26, turned out to be a very well connected young woman. She is the daughter of a senior civil servant who works for South Viet Nam's Senate chairman, and is the girl friend of an army major. She lived in a house owned by Vo Van Mau, a deputy in the National Assembly, who is loyal to Thieu's regime. When police searched another of Mau's properties, they found vials that bore traces...
There are major political implications to the heroin problem. One of Saigon's leading opposition papers, the Tin Dien, asked sarcastically: "Who wants to kill this regime? The rulers or the Communists?" The fact that some of Thieu's supporters are implicated in the heroin trade does not mean that the government either condones or encourages the illegal trafficking. Nonetheless, the paper pointed out that if Thieu failed to cope with the heroin scandal, it would be a major defeat for his regime. There is also considerable speculation that Hanoi may be facilitating the flow of cheap heroin...
...There is an increasing fear among Americans opposed to the Vietnam war that the oil industry will pressure the Nixon Administration to make an even stronger commitment to the Thieu-Ky government. A pamphlet making this argument was done in February by the "Another Mother for Peace" group. This has prompted 10,000 letters to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to Chairman J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark). State Department officials, in response to Senator Fulbright's query, have disclaimed knowledge of oil fields offshore Vietnam...