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...Crimson has supported the National Liberation Front for the past four years. The altered situation in Vietnam leaves that support unchanged. The U.S. must cut off all direct aid to the Thieu regime and permit the Vietnamese people to determine their own destiny...
Since 1965, Thieu has served his American masters well. He has outlawed political opposition, tossed over 100,000 of his political opponents into jail, including his chief opponent in the 1967 elections, and extended his police apparatus, replete with an extensive identification card system, until it weighs heavily on the lives of the majority of the Vietnamese people...
...rural areas. Its policy of local participation in effecting extensive land reform appealed to peasants oppressed by an inequitable colonial land tenure system. Its courageous resistance to the American war also attracted widespread support. But now terror bombing has herded many of the peasants into the cities, where Thieu's police can watch over them and make NLF efforts difficult. The extent of this forced urbanization is telling: southern Vietnam, 20 per cent urban in the early 1960s, is over 60 per cent urban today...
...Vietnamese peasants want to go home. But they are prevented from returning to their rice fields by Thieu's police, who restrict travel within the country, and by his army, which keeps the war simmering against...
...Thieu's repression can be hastened by a cut-off in American aid to his government. Without U.S. assistance, his army, the fourth-largest in the world, will be unable to survive, and his government will soon follow it into well-deserved oblivion. As the Vietnamese return to their homes, the National Liberation Front will be able to continue its land reform program and construct a national state based on popular support which will be free from foreign domination...