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...Thieu gets the 'friendship' of your government; the Communists get the 'friendship' of those of you who don't like what your government does. Where do the Vietnamese people come in? Who is our friend? Yours sincerely, Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Law '73 Hoang T. Ly, Harvard '76 Nguyen Thi Suong Hong, Harvard '75 Ho Hue Tam, GSAS 3 Pham Thi Hoa, East Asian Research Center
...Cambodian forces are dling all their fighting and that at most there are several thousand Vietnamese providing nothing more than advice and heavy weapons support (Christian Science Monitor, April 9, 1973; New York Times, March 28 and April 11, 1973; and so on), the Nixon administration and the Thieu regime have insisted that the deteriorating situation in Cambodia is mostly due to the presence of "North Vietnamese...
...taped interview with "Face the Nation" on April 8 of this year, Thieu said that in Cambodia "there are now three to eight thousand Khmer-Rouge, and the 50,000 North Vietnamese." Because the situation in Cambodia may endanger Thieu's own position, he insisted that the United States should continue to give air support to the Lon Nol regime. The same line of argument had been advanced by Defense Secretary Richardson a few days earlier when he admitted that the collapse of the Cambodian government would have a "significant" effect on the viability of the Thieu regime in South...
...this kind of round-about logic, the United States is now bombing Cambodia to protect the viability of the Thieu regime in South Vietnam. It is now bombing Laos and threatening to bomb North Vietnam to protect the viability of the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia. And one wonders what this will lead the United States to next when it claims that it will have to protect the viability of the Phouma regime in Laos...
...nevertheless. It augurs only to bring death and misery to still thousands more Indochinese. Americans who want to have this immoral war end once for all should not let Nixon intimidate them through the use of the returning POWs but should force Nixon to end all support for the Thieu, the Long Nol and the Phouma regimes and let the Indochinese peoples solve their own problems...