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...part of the United States, there are several issues our government must address in order to make our future participation in the affairs of Vietnam more regenerative than destructive. Just as arms shipments into Indochina from all foreign sources should be stopped, all American military aid to Thieu should be cut off, and any assistance that will bolster his influence over the non-governmental council of national reconciliation should be held back. That council, composed of neutralists, members of the N.L.F., and elements of the current South Vietnamese government, should be allowed to determine the future of Vietnam without political...
...final reason why the movement should openly support the PRG has to do with simple honesty. In advocating immediate withdrawal, opponents of the war are obviously saying in effect that the Provisional Revolutionary Government (or some coalition dominated by it) should take power in South Vietnam, since the Thieu-Ky government will not be a viable alternative to the PRG once U.S. troops leave. This being the case, it is very important that the anti-war movement make clear to the American people that immediate withdrawal does mean a Communist victory in South Vietnam. Equivocation on this point can only...
...Nixon approves what Kissinger brought back-and the betting in Washington was that he would-the next step is to persuade the Saigon regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu to go along. In view of Thieu's intransigence to date, that may take considerable presidential muscle. After meeting later on Sunday with both Kissinger and General Alexander M. Haig Jr., Kissinger's former aide, Nixon dispatched Haig to Saigon to put the strong arm on Thieu...
That scenario is not entirely imaginary. On the evidence of captured Communist documents and the public and private edicts of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, it is the most probable aftermath of any ceasefire. Both sides have for months been preparing for a tumultuous, violent postwar war that will determine the political future of South Viet Nam as much as any battle of the past...
...with the people of Indochina rather than the people of the White House and the Pentagon, then we must do whatever we can to see that the peace settlement that is reached meets with their needs and wishes. rather than the lusts and vanities of President Nixon or President Thieu...