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...have never seen him refuse anything." SOUTH VIET NAM: From the moment he arrived at the presidential palace in Saigon until the moment of his departure, Agnew moved about under total security and in almost total public silence. Perhaps by design both Agnew and President Nguyen Van Thieu had chosen to speak out before his arrival. En route to Saigon, Agnew explicitly ruled out as a topic of conversation the timetable for American withdrawal from Viet Nam beyond that already announced by Nixon. Thieu made his opposite views known in an interview with TIME. "We need to know-not publicly...
...great deal is known, however, about the problems that the two nations face alone, jointly and with each other. Among them: South Viet Nam's worsening economic condition and what it means by its ability to "cope" as America withdraws; the current South Vietnamese election campaign (see WORLD); Thieu's insistence that, to ensure the peace, the U.S. keep a 60,000-man garrison in South Viet Nam even after Vietnamization is complete. CAMBODIA: Protected by U.S. helicopter gunships in the air and by Secret Service men on the ground, Agnew made an unannounced, though scheduled visit...
...last-minute Communist attacks would disrupt the balloting, but the campaigning took place in an atmosphere of relative normality. The military front remained quiescent. U.S. battle deaths dropped to 52 for the past week, the lowest toll in 4½ years. The cities were also peaceful. President Nguyen Van Thieu has defused chronic student protest by releasing jailed students. He also succeeded in mollifying the raucous disabled war veterans, who roll to their riots in wheelchairs, by granting them more liberal benefits...
...government is also gaining support in rural areas. As Thieu told TIME last week: "I think the countryman has more confidence in us today. The Viet Cong are now trying to rebuild their strength in the countryside, but it is too late." Last week Thieu handed out the first titles under a 2.5 million-acre land-reform program designed to gain peasant support...
...government tolerates only a narrow range of opposition; some members of the democratic left still languish in jail, including the prominent government opponent, Truong Dinh Dzu. There were no known Communists or Communist sympathizers among the 160 Senate candidates. While none of the 16 slates was endorsed by Thieu's six-party National Democratic and Socialist Front, eleven were considered favorably disposed to the government. The other five kept their criticism mild...