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Though some top U.S. officials in Saigon still describe South Viet Nam as a "free society," South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu in the past year has gathered most of the reins of power into his hands. He so manipulated last August's Senate elections that a pro-Thieu majority was chosen. This gave him control of both the Senate and the National Assembly, and so Thieu had no trouble changing the constitution to eliminate its two-term limit, enabling him to run in October 1975 for a third five-year term. His intimidation of political opponents...
...explained, if he didn't want to face New York's aroused and angry people. After all, the Nixon administration's crimes have included five years (so far) of the Indochina war, from the ground war to the Christmas bombing to the secret bombing of Cambodia to building General Thieu's torturous prisons and continuing to finance his attacks on areas he doesn't control. And five years (so far) of subversion of democracy at home, from the Mayday internments to Kent State to bribing the Pentagon Papers judge to letting complaint monopolies even more alone than usual to bugging...
Scrupulous Neutral. Meanwhile, South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Vuong Van Bac visited Saudi Arabia to remind King Faisal that on Middle East issues the Thieu government has been scrupulously neutral. The point was well taken, and South Viet Nam was certified as a customer. The Vietnamese would have to do their own contracting for the oil, but the U.S. could continue to pay for it at the higher prices. U.S. officials estimate that 10% of this year's $813 million in military aid for Viet Nam will flow into fuel...
Peace will turn off the faucet of American aid and permit peasants to return to the countryside, where the NLF will be able to mobilize them into its democratically carried out land reform program. Thieu realizes that peace will aid the NLF, so he continues...
...long as Nixon clings to his concept of honor, and the U.S. Congress continues to aid him by financing Thieu, there will be no peace...