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...South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu agreed to a political process that would lead to the establishment of a National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord, as called for by the agreement, and pave the way for national elections in which the Viet Cong could participate...
HENRY A. KISSINGER '50 claims that the power of decision for peace in Vietnam has been shifted to the Vietnamese. But on November 30, Defense Secretary Schlesinger threatened renewed bombing, without even mentioning Congressional authorization. American policy since January has bolstered Thieu so that he has no incentive to seek a compromise. And Thieu's military attacks and stopped-up policy actions, even in areas damaged by the recent floods, have left the Provisional Revolutionary Government little choice but to counter-attack...
Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are holding a highly-touted meeting today, but after 11 fruitless months, there's no reason to expect much to come out of their meeting. The decision for peace in Vietnam is ours. Congress should cut off aid to Thieu...
...Senate has passed an authorization--which Nixon will be happy to use--but not an appropriation. Senators and congressmen--if not the dike bomber himself--are likely to listen to letters and telegrams from their constituents, especially about the most blatantly reprehensible forms of aid to Thieu. For example, Sen. Edward Brooke (R -Mass.) often votes for aid to Thieu, but Brooke's office says he will support an amendment--now in committee--to prohibit aid to Thieu's prisons...
Such support is welcome--clearly the United States should stop paying people to shove bottles up political prisoners's vaginas--but not enough. All American aid to Thieu--as well as to dictators in Greece, Korea, Chile, and around the world--should be cut off. The United States owes the Vietnamese people reparations, but that is not what Thieu uses his money for. He uses it--sometimes in defiance of the purpose for which it was earmarked--to continue the war and the repression his war's being fought to maintain...