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...liberal and conservative sources alike--of which The New York Times was one of the worst--painted Allende as an imposter, a Red opportunist elected on a fluke. He was labelled "Marxist President" Allende to suggest that he was not a president in the sense of a Frei, a Thieu, or a Nixon. He was blamed for Chile's economic distress and for the consequent demonstrations of pot-banging housewives and striking truckers. He was, as The Times wrote, operating "brilliantly on borrowed time." Bernard Collier wrote in The New York Times Magazine in 1972: "The political problem for President...
Devaluation and the resulting imported inflation can be understood as a delayed tax on the American people to support Nguyen van Thieu...
...economy, however, could be Thieu's undoing. One year ago there was heady talk about implementing a massive economic reconstruction program in both North and South Viet Nam, financed mostly by the U.S. So far, America has taken no serious steps toward aiding Hanoi, and has even been reluctant to help Saigon. For 1974, the U.S. AID mission requested $475 million for South Viet Nam; Congress appropriated only $320 million. Without a great deal more assistance from the U.S., the Thieu government probably will have to limit and reduce the availability of consumer goods by restricting imports and increasing...
...Western intelligence analyst in Saigon has warned that the Communists may use the economic malaise to alienate the South Vietnamese from their government. Thieu's monopolization of power could make him vulnerable to this Communist tactic because, as former Ambassador Robert Komer (head of the pacification program in South Viet Nam from 1967 to 1968) has observed: 'Thieu is progressively isolating himself from the mainstream of Vietnamese politics by running things by cronyism...
STREET HIERARCHIES formed and a class of wild, homeless kids called Cao Bois grew up who beat and rolled American soldiers. Thus Do street had the largest collection of bars and bordellos in Vietnam--less than a half mile from Nguyen Van Thieu's home. Monks burned themselves in the streets; soldiers bought bar girls Saigon Tea for two bucks a shot and got blown up by bicycles laden with explosives; NLF agents lived next door to petty government officials. Hundreds of crippled war veterans angrily confronted the state with demands for housing and health care, descending on the presidential...