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...protect peasants from Communist attack. By 1966 President Johnson was referring to pacification as "the other war," or "the struggle to win the hearts and minds of the people." Whatever its name, the object of pacification for nearly two decades has been to wrest rural areas from Viet Cong control and bring them under the aegis of the Saigon government. With U.S. troops continuing their withdrawal-President Nixon last week announced that the troop level would decline by another 40,000 to 344,000 by Christmas-pacification has assumed ever-increasing importance in determining the allegiance of the country...
...full-scale government presence and the apparent elimination of the Viet Cong apparatus; B-strong government presence while the V.C. appear to have been neutralized; C-less-than-firm government presence and some V.C. agents still operating; D-partial government control with V.C. agents operating actively; E-minimum government presence with V.C. agents underground by day and operative by night; V-totally under Viet Cong control...
...entire pacification program. Local government is still often corrupt. "We have established territorial security," says Army Major Alan Butler, the district's senior U.S. adviser. "But the test is whether at the hamlet level the government can deliver the goods rather than the Viet Cong." Hamlet Chief Tran Van Giao puts it another way. "Our security is now fair," he observed. "Soon I hope to have full security, a place for women to have babies. Where there can be some electricity and medical supplies." Simple things, but so basic that they only serve to show that no matter...
...Chief U.S. Negotiator David Bruce patiently replied that the U.S. "will not take your comments today as your final position" and that "all proposals, yours as well as our own," are still open to discussion. Thus Nixon's program and an eight-point plan submitted by the Viet Cong's Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh last month remain the chief talking points-if the Communists intend to talk, that is. The main sticking points are still the withdrawal of U.S. troops and the end of support of the present Saigon regime...
...VIET CONG: A cease-fire only after agreement is reached on all points of its peace plan. Previously, the Communists simply did not mention a ceasefire...