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North Viet Nam has maintained that it cannot bargain for the Viet Cong, that this must be done by the National Liberation Front, which neither the U.S. nor the Saigon government recognizes as an independent entity. N.L.F. representation in some form would be tolerated by Washington, but the Thieu regime says it will never make a deal with the Viet Cong's representatives. The N.L.F., for its part, insists it will not bargain with Thieu's government, whose legitimacy it denies...
Bitter Legacy. Another possibility is the continuation of military activity but on a declining level, as both the U.S. and North Viet Nam disengage. For this to lead to peace, formal political status for the N.L.F. would be required eventually. The Thieu government, as recently as last week, continued to insist it would never accept any coalition with the Front. There are other variations on the theme. But any settlement that promises to yield any satisfaction to both sides also entails concessions by both sides. The Communists might have to forgo their goal of an immediate N.L.F. takeover...
Wrestling with private misgivings. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu publicly supported Johnson's bombing restrictions and the preliminary talks with Hanoi. But he also made it plain that South Viet Nam would try to go it alone if the U.S. withdrew support. Said he: "If the U.S. is no longer able to help us, I will appeal to other allied nations such as South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand to help us." Privately, President Thieu warned U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker that South Viet Nam reserved the right to repudiate any political agreement that...
...South Vietnamese Senate, which is heavily Catholic, passed a declaration that bombing restrictions should be the final allied gesture of good will toward the North, and 30 pro-Thieu Senators issued a statement calling the American initiative "a surrender concession." Twenty-one independent members of the House of Representatives called for more bombing, not less. Most of the South Vietnamese press also warned the people to brace for a sellout. "Washington," said the Saigon daily Cong Chung, "is following in the tracks of the French...
Display of Independence. Many South Vietnamese were annoyed that the new U.S. initiatives came at a time when Thieu, at U.S. prodding, was just beginning to combat corruption. In re cent weeks he has fired some 100 major officials, including nearly one-third of the country's 43 province chiefs and two of the four army corps commanders. He has also stepped up the draft in order to raise army strength by 135,000 men and accelerated part-time military training for university students. Though he probably will accept sooner or later, Thieu at first held off saying...