Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the continued withdrawal of American hardware and capital from South Vietnam, Thieu's economy is in a complete shambles. In addition, Thieu's military is badly demoralized and is losing on the battlefield. It is now apparent that the so called Republic of South Vietnam can no longer continue its pointless military campaign. Thieu has been forced to make several concessions to those who voice opposition to his war policy, including the ouster of several unpopular cabinet members and three of his top military commanders...
Still Thieu is not without protective resources. He has built up an enormous police network to deal with political dissenters and their numbers have not prevented him from jailing them. There are reportedly over 100,000 political prisoners locked up in Vietnam. And while the United States Congress grows more and more reluctant to appropriate funds for South Vietnam, the Ford administration has increased its efforts to get international aid for Saigon. In an attempt to channel money from the World Bank, U.S. representatives met with representatives of 15 other member nations two weeks ago in Paris. Although Japan...
...demonstrations will continue to grow in frequency and scope. It now appears that nothing short of a renewed infusion of direct and indirect American aid to the Saigon government can save Thieu. While this might seem an unthinkable proposition for an America still scarred from its previous involvement in Vietnam, recent actions of President Ford and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 indicate otherwise. In fact, the Ford administration has already gone to great lengths in Congress to increase aid to Thieu and even threatened renewed troop involvement if necessary "to protect American interests...
...nearly a decade the United States has bombed the countryside of Vietnam back into the stone age. Now it owes the people of Vietnam far more than it appropriates to Thieu. But the funds which the U.S. spends to prop up Thieu's illegitimate government in South Vietnam should be rechanneled to the legitimate government: the Provisional Revolutionary Government. Only when U.S. funds are utilized to rebuild the countryside of Vietnam and to bring a united people the opportunity for free democratic elections, should the American public allow its government to continue spending millions of dollars in Vietnam...
...Thieu is ousted and the people of both North and South Vietnam are allowed at long last to choose their government, they will have a chance to achieve domestic peace, and freedom that many in the younger generation have never known. Until that time, the struggle in Vietnam will continue. Even if this struggle is remote from the people of the United States, we must not allow our government to increase or even continue its present aid to a regime that, by its very nature, demands war conditions and a police state to maintain an illegitimate and unpopular dictatorship...