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...January, the U.S. agreed that "advisers to all paramilitary organizations and the police force will be withdrawn" from South Viet Nam and that it would not "intervene in the internal affairs of South Viet Nam." Presumably that meant that the U.S. would stop training and subsidizing President Nguyen Van Thieu's 122,000-man national police force, which has collected more than $131.7 million in U.S. assistance since...
Later this month, however, as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sits down to review the 1974 foreign-aid budget, it will find that U.S. aid to Thieu's police continues to flow richly through a series of semicamouflaged channels. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who has denounced the practice as "repeating the mistakes and failures of the past," estimates the total at $15 million a year and adds: "Presumably there is more buried elsewhere...
...largest amount of aid to Thieu's police has come openly from the Defense Department. Since the Paris treaty permits one-for-one replacement of worn-out military equipment that was in Viet Nam at the time of the truce, and since the police seem to be wearing out their supplies at a great rate, the Pentagon is shipping them Jeeps, radios and other equipment at a cost of $8.8 million this fiscal year...
Next comes $2.6 million from the U.S. commercial import program. Under this, the Agency for International Development pays U.S. exporters in dollars, but the piasters paid by Vietnamese importers are turned over to Thieu's regime. Saigon's use of the money has helped the police force grow almost 70% since...
...Thieu will use the political period for his own benefit, to strengthen his regime and keep the South independent of the North. That independence has already brought a measure of stability to Southeast Asia. Singapore's tough Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, acknowledged this last spring, remarking: "The American intervention in Viet Nam has broken the hypnotic spell on the other Southeast Asians that Communism is irresistible, that it is the wave of history. Communist victory was demonstrated not to be inevitable." With the bombing ended, Lee acknowledged early this month that he was now "in a more uncomfortable...