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...started with a 3,500-word story by Shipler published Feb. 25. Shipler had spent six weeks studying the scope of U.S. assistance to the Thieu government. He interviewed privately employed American technicians who service South Viet Nam's military hardware-equipment and maintenance paid for by the U.S. He also sought an explanation of U.S. policy from American officials. The ambassador, who has sharply reduced press access to the embassy since he arrived in August, refused...
...Paris agreements explicitly rule out advisers to the police force, the South Vietnamese national police continue to receive regular advice from Americans." The article suggested that extensive and sometimes illegal aid to Saigon must continue as long as U.S. policy is linked to the anti-Communist rule of President Thieu...
LIKE PEOPLE elsewhere, Vietnamese sometimes use poetry to express political intent. The following poem--recently, published by the National Liberation Front--appears to mark an important turning point: the NLF has decided to go on the offensive against Thieu's maneuvers to sabotage the peace agreement...
...last year, the Front has contented itself with ripostes against incursions and non-stop artillery attacks by Thieu's troops, and protests against Thieu's unwillingness to abide by the 1973 peace agreement and release his approximately 10,000 political prisoners. Now, the Front appears determined to take a more active strategy...
...Saigon government's situation continues to deteriorate. Earlier this year, there were reports of suicides among pedicab drivers and other common people in Thieu-controlled areas because of their inability to support their families. Although Thieu will require massive infusions of American aid to survive, as the American ambassador in Saigon recently noted, these funds will not come easily. Some conservative Congressmen have recently been shocked by their belated discovery that the Pentagon has been funneling monies illicitly to the Thieu regime for years...