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...entanglement. At issue were the Ford Administration's request to send $222 million in additional military aid to President Lon Nol's shaky Cambodian government and, less urgently, $300 million in more arms to the less immediately endangered government of South Viet Nam's Nguyen Van Thieu...
Nonetheless, Thieu seems in no imminent danger of falling. Saigon still firmly controls over 50% and partially controls another 40% of the South Vietnamese population. Despite the desertions and casualties, ARVN still has an imposing numerical superiority over the Communists (850,000 troops...
Like the countless other congressional missions to Indochina over the past decade, the most recent junket was a grueling, rapid plunge into the complexities of war and politics. There were mandatory visits with the heads of state, Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon and Lon Nol in beleaguered Phnom-Penh. Congressmen William Chappell and John Murtha donned fatigues and trooped off to a Cambodian army post. After a tour of a huge refugee center set up in Phnom-Penh's unfinished Cambodiana Hotel, a shaken Millicent Fenwick, Republican Representative from New Jersey, said: "I can't believe this...
...Thieu's repressive measures could not have come at a worse time. The U.S. Congress, in the midst of debating an Administration request for an extra $300 million in military aid for Saigon, was sure to react unfavorably to Thieu's latest attack on the South Vietnamese press; even the anti-Thieu papers are decidedly nonCommunist. Beyond that, a number of longtime supporters of South Viet Nam's President, including Senator Henry Jackson, seem to have given up on Thieu. "The Thieu failure is a failure of a regime to bring together all the factions to fight...
Random Shelling. Bad publicity, however, is only one of Thieu's problems and probably not his gravest. More serious is the fact that the military balance has in recent months been changing unfavorably for Saigon. In Military...