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...final reason why the movement should openly support the PRG has to do with simple honesty. In advocating immediate withdrawal, opponents of the war are obviously saying in effect that the Provisional Revolutionary Government (or some coalition dominated by it) should take power in South Vietnam, since the Thieu-Ky government will not be a viable alternative to the PRG once U.S. troops leave. This being the case, it is very important that the anti-war movement make clear to the American people that immediate withdrawal does mean a Communist victory in South Vietnam. Equivocation on this point can only...
...unfortunate that Teddy was so silent when his brother John ordered the first American combat troops of this war into action and is now so vitriolic against the President's honest attempts to reduce these forces. What irony that Teddy also insists that we now toss out the Thieu regime when it was, once again, his own brother who was directly responsible for the fall of Diem, leading to the rise of Thieu...
...dilemma remains: a negotiated peace does not seem readily at hand while Thieu and Ky hold power-and while Hanoi continues to insist that they must go. One possible answer may lie not in logic but evolution. It could come about as the timetable of U.S. withdrawals continues to unfold. At some point down the track, Thieu and Ky are likely to reach the conclusion that if they cannot live forever with Americans present to protect them, then they cannot operate without the Communists. When that point is reached, it may well be that something like an electoral or control...
...does South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu feel about his own role in the U.S. debate over the war? In an unusually candid hour-long interview with TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark last week, Thieu stoutly defended his government and insisted on its continuance at least until the elections scheduled for 1971. Among the questions and answers...
...must not fall into their trap to, in effect, overthrow ourselves. I do not see any circumstance in which we must change the government, except when the people of South Viet Nam say, "We don't want Thieu and Vice President Ky any longer." And if they don't want Thieu and Ky any longer, they have the opportunity to say so in the elections...