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EVEN if the U.S. unexpectedly agrees to the dissolution of the Thieu government and allows the subsequent establishment of a coalition heavily weighted in favor of the NLF, several other knots must be unraveled. In short, what some Americans have long considered a simple sell-out will not be sufficient to conclude the imbroglio in Vietnam...
...MOBILIZATION. "We must make greater sacrifices because this is our coun try," said Thieu. "I have decided to increase the armed forces by 135,000." The President said that the new troops would be created mainly by mobilizing 18-and 19-year-olds and by recalling veterans under 33 with less than five years of military service...
...AUSTERITY. "I have severely forbidden the construction of sumptuous houses in order to reserve labor and resources," announced .Thieu, adding that he had given "strict instructions to close def initely the dancing bars and other dis guised nightclubs that are harmful to our good moral traditions and deprave our youth." Outdoor markets for smug gled and stolen goods were also or dered out of business...
...CORRUPTION. "It hinders every im provement in society and the progress of the nation," said Thieu. "Its eradica tion is a very difficult task that re quires much courage, many efforts and patience, but I am determined to push vigorously the anticorruption program." Punishments, he said, would range from disciplinary measures all the way to imprisonment or even death...
...REFUGEE RIGHTS. To help ensure that corrupt officials do not dip into the aid for the refugees of the Communists' Tet attacks, Thieu spelled out exactly what each refugee family was entitled to get. In Saigon it was $83, ten large iron sheets and ten bags of cement. In Hue the aid was the same except that, because of the excessive damage, each family should get 20 iron sheets. Elsewhere, each family was due $41.50, ten sheets, ten bags of cement. Thieu reported that the refugee rolls had already been reduced from the initial 700,000 created...