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...them the news: not only would U.S. advisers accompany ARVN troops into Cambodia, but the American-led Fishhook attack would be staged a day later as a second and even more unexpected jolt to the Communists. The orders were quickly passed to a delighted South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. As Nixon retired to the luxuriant White House Rose Garden to work on his speech, U.S. warplanes and artillery began softening up the sanctuaries...
Saigon schools closed indefinitely last Wednesday. The Los Angeles Times reported although even peaceful demonstrations have been banned, students continue to protest the Thieu regime's "new austerity measures, 30 years of war, and seemingly uncontrollable corruption...
When you read a story about a battle, pretend you were in it. I was going to spare you from meeting one of my friends. but I thought that the 43 per cent of the freshman class who still wanted Thieu and Ky to win needed him. If you think hard enough about him, and his friends, you'll be in the streets Wednesday afternoon...
...issue's importance, the Viet Cong have long made a point of redistributing land under their control. A succession of Saigon governments paid due obeisance to the ideal of land reform, but did nothing. Last week, in the Mekong Delta center of Can Tho, President Nguyen Van Thieu signed into law a land-reform bill that, he said, would help "each tenant to become a landowner enjoying a prosperous life. This will open a new era for the nation...
...bill encountered heavy going from the moment it was introduced into the legislature last July. In the lower house particularly, important sections were eviscerated or killed, largely by landowners reluctant to give up any of their holdings. Thieu was well aware of the need for reform-and of its vote-winning potential in next year's scheduled presidential elections. He began applying pressure to restore key provisions, and finally got what he wanted. The bill, which will cost an estimated $400 million over the next decade, strips 3,120,000 acres, slightly less than half of South Viet...