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These are not the best of times for President Nguyen Van Thieu. Since the 1973 Peace Accords were signed in Paris, the opposing sides in South Viet Nam have methodically killed each other at a doleful rate of 4,000 a month. What makes the fighting utterly futile is the fact that neither the Communists nor the Saigon government has scored any strategic gains. Moreover, public discontent with Thieu's tautly run regime has been fueled by inflation, which is currently running at a staggering 70% a year. As a result, Thieu, for the first time since the ceasefire...
...Healing the nation's wounds" seems to be the great slogan of the highly-touted "post-Watergate era." The events of the last few weeks--the pardon of Nixon, the refusal of amnesty, Ford's defense of the CIA in Chile and appeals for aid to Thieu--show how selectively President Ford means this policy. But even at its best it wouldn't be enough. A patient with a malignant tumor doesn't worry first about wounds made by the surgeon's knife: those wounds will heal by themselves, when the tumor is gone. The slogans of the pre-Watergate...
...American troops in South Korea are a key prop in the repressive regime of President Chung Hee Park in South Korea. An unending flow of economic aid to the Philippines enables President Ferdinand Marcos to throw any political dissenter into jail. Military and economic assistance to President Nguyen Van Thieu helps to keep the war-weary South Vietnamese people subject to a government that has subverted all democratic institutions...
...Saigon troops; they killed 300 Communist soldiers. More often Saigon's fighting effort is being bled by industrious attempts to make a buck out of the war, according to a secret report by psychological-warfare officers that was recently submitted to President Nguyen Van Thieu...
Such corruption is a political as well as a military problem for Thieu. In June 301 Catholic priests signed a strong manifesto charging that corruption "neutralizes every effort to build the country." They are leading a program to form a "people's campaign against corruption." But so far Thieu has not taken any strong action, perhaps because he fears that by eliminating the military's traditional involvement in corruption, he would cause unrest among his most powerful supporters...