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...Peace" obviously referred to the end of fighting, "honor" for an agreement which did not "abandon our allies," the South Vietnamese regime of Nguyen Van Thieu. But in the year since Nixon's announcement, it has become clear that the two words are wholly incompatible with reference to Vietnam...
There may be Nixon's kind of honor in Vietnam--Thieu's regime shows few sings of disappearing--but there is no peace in Vietnam. Ngo Vinh Long '64, who works at Harvard's Vietnamese Studies Project, has carefully monitored the progress of peace, and he reports that war continues steadily...
...steady rumblings of war have grown louder in recent weeks, Long reports. On January 4, Thieu explicitly directed his troops to attack territory assigned by the agreements to the National Liberation Front--an explicit violation of those agreements. Bombing raids against NLF held areas have also increased...
...Thieu's objectives are simple: by keeping the war simmering and at times flaring up, he prevents the return of peasants to the countryside, where they would join the NLF, and insures that the flow of American aid which keeps him in power will continue unabated...
...hundreds of millions of people in the Third World may hinge on the success of that experiment. On this, the anniversary of the end of a war which has not ended, the American people must redouble their efforts to pressure their representatives to cut off all aid to Thieu so that Vietnam may begin its journey...