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...regional militia has frequently proved to be unreliable. So far this year, militiamen have abandoned 40% of their 2,500 outposts in the Delta. The morale of regular ARVN troops, which has seldom been high, has recently fallen even farther, due in part to the continuing corruption within the Thieu regime and among ranking military officers (TIME, Nov. 11). Moreover, Saigon's economic squeeze-the result of the increased price of imported oil and a decrease in U.S. aid-has forced ARVN to economize on the battlefield. Many outposts are now limited to two artillery shells...
There was a singularly urgent tone to President Nguyen Van Thieu's National Day radio address last week. He warned that the combination of an unruly opposition in the South and continued North Vietnamese military attacks could "lead the country into the hands of Communism." The remark was a lightly veiled threat by the President that he would no longer tolerate the massive demonstrations of South Viet Nam's aggressive, Catholic-led resistance that began in September and have since brought his government to its most serious political crisis in years...
Earlier in the week, Thieu, a Roman Catholic convert, had tried to appease his opponents by firing the notoriously corrupt commanders of three of the country's four military "corps." Among those busted was General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, of IV Corps (the Mekong Delta), who has long been suspected of pocketing the salaries of some 36,000 "phantom troops"-men who are on the payroll but nowhere else in the military. Thieu also cashiered 377 corrupt officers and dismissed four Cabinet ministers, including his cousin and confidant, Information Minister Hoang Due Nha, 32, who was responsible for censoring...
Fonda charged that the United States is creating a "massive police state" by supporting the "unpopular and undemocratic dictatorship" of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Thieu...
...removal of Thieu's government would not necessarily be the solution to the severe economic and social problems facing Vietnam and would not ensure the unification of the country. Some of Thieu's would-be successors and a large portion of those now calling for his resignation are as anti-communist and anti-democratic as Thieu himself. But this man has for too many years perpetuated a war against the will of the general population in deference to fat-cat South Vietnamese businessmen and military officers. He has collaborated with the United States in bombing his own country...