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Besides all that, President Nguyen Van Thieu's government is due to start bilateral talks with the Viet Cong (more properly, the Provisional Revolutionary Government) in Paris this week. The goal: to create a National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord, which is supposed to supervise free elections. Then there is a 13-member international guarantee conference, due to convene...
Partly because of Thieu's cunning political footwork, his position today is very strong-much more so than it was three months ago. He has stayed on working terms with the U.S. while tightening his control over the Saigon government. He has also shown that he can stand up to American pressure, and this in turn has increased his popularity at home. His army is large and well equipped, and is assured of continued U.S. military assistance on a one-for-one replacement basis. He will also have the help of perhaps 5,000 civilian advisers...
...Thieu has to worry not only about the North Vietnamese troops left in the South but about Washington's long-term intentions. The U.S. retains airbases in Thailand, and if the North Vietnamese were to mount another military offensive against South Viet Nam within six or eight months, they would have reason to fear U.S. bombing. But what if the crisis comes in two or three years-perhaps in the form of a coup or a Communist-fed revolt? Would the U.S. take military action to assist Thieu? It seems unlikely...
Other Wars. For this reason, many U.S. officials in Saigon anticipate a gradual increase in anti-Americanism. Some, in fact, believe that Thieu himself has already begun to encourage such a trend. After a recent speech by the President to a group of officer cadets at Dalat, several trainees spread the word that the Americans had conspired to permit Communist infiltration of South Vietnamese cities in the Tet offensive of 1968, that the U.S. was dilatory in delivering air strikes at Quang Tri City during the Communists' 1972 offensive, and that Henry Kissinger had betrayed South Viet...
...Women are more stubborn than men. That's why they make good reporters." Oriana Fallaci, the tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Italian reporter who takes on the big guys for L'Europeo magazine, was off for a tenth visit to Viet Nam to reinterview President Thieu and cover the American withdrawal. The way she explains her exclusive interviews with world leaders, however, gender has less to do with it than size. "I got Thieu to talk because we are both very short. Henry Kissinger didn't talk as much because he's slightly taller than...