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FitzGerald described the strategy of President Thieu's regime in South Vietnam as one of a "war for population" which attempts by police tactics and bombing of houses to keep the people of South Vietnam in areas where the South Vietnamese government can control them...
...Saigon, the North and South Vietnamese are barely civil to each other. The Paris accords call for "consultations in a spirit of national reconciliation and concord, mutual respect and mutual non-elimination." But, no less than the Communists, President Nguyen Van Thieu, who returned to Saigon last week from a trip abroad, still prefers to pursue a policy of elimination. So far he has shown far more political strength than anyone had thought he would immediately after the ceasefire. He has made only a pretense of moving toward joint political arrangements with the Communists, feeling no pressure...
...back to Saigon from the U.S., South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu got the cold shoulder throughout Europe. Britain's Prime Minister Ted Heath decided to helicopter Thieu to a private meeting at Chequers rather than chance an ugly demonstration in Whitehall. In Bonn, 2,500 leftist rioters wrecked the 18th century town hall to protest the visit, while in Hannover, Chancellor Willy Brandt bluntly told a cheering audience: "Some visitors one would rather see leaving than coming." Choppered over Rome, again to avoid demonstrators, Thieu dropped in at the Vatican, where Pope Paul VI urged him to release...
...impotent. The main problem is that, largely because of North Vietnamese opposition, the Paris accord did not set up an above-the-battle "standing authority" to which the ICCS can report. Instead, the ICCS is responsible mainly to the two-party Joint Military Commission, whose warring Communist and Thieu-regime delegates are not likely ever to agree on what ought to be done about truce violations...
...Martin will carry out his own strategies remains to be seen, of course, but the Saigon government apparently welcomes him. "Oh, he's going to be great," said one confidant of President Nguyen Van Thieu. "Martin is a hawk, you know." Perhaps the aide forgot that Cardinal Richelieu is remembered not for open fighting but for his skill in maneuvering others to work his will...