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...Americans. The North Vietnamese last week reiterated their assurances that Americans and other foreign nationals would not be molested. But the Administration believed that it had no choice but to play a dangerous game: extricate Americans from South Viet Nam even as they assure President Nguyen Van Thieu of at least the possibility of continued U.S. support...
...deferments available to the rich, the influential and the educated, and the practice of awarding high-ranking military posts as political plums. But ARVN's most serious problem during the current crisis may be its top leadership-and specifically its commander in chief, President Nguyen Van Thieu. Despite the debacle of the withdrawal, Thieu still indulges in the mandarin weakness of running his army like a puppetmaster, capriciously moving units from one defense line to another but rarely visiting the fighting fronts himself...
...Thieu's political leadership has created an even more severe problem for the country. After the disastrous setbacks of the past month, there have been widespread calls for his resignation. Last week Thieu responded by naming yet another new government, this one a "fighting government of unity." Despite that description the new Cabinet included no members of the broadening opposition; the Premier, Nguyen Ba Can, is a bland labor unionist who can be counted on to do the President's bidding. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh demanded that Thieu resign before Saigon "becomes another Phnom-Penh...
...President Thieu and Cambodian President Lon Nol carefully hedging their bets and gilding their nests for a comfortable exile? That, at least, would be one plausible explanation for some recent negotiations involving members of the Saigon government and Balair, a charter-airline affiliate of Swissair...
Whatever reasons the U.S. may have had for entering Viet Nam, commercial exploitation was hardly among them. Although the American business community in Saigon has grown roughly 20% since the 1973 Paris accords, to about 230 members, the total U.S. investment in Nguyen Van Thieu's crumbling nation still amounts to a paltry $25 million-or about the cost of half a day of the war at its height. Skeptical of Thieu's ability to govern and frightened by the country's runaway inflation, U.S. multinational corporations have never been willing to risk large amounts of capital...