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...NEWS FROM Da Nang and Hue has been sparse lately. The National Liberation Front is supplying almost all of the information about areas it has taken over in South Vietnam, and it is saying that things have returned to normal in cities it captured only weeks ago. That kind of incomplete report isn't much to go on, but it is consistent with virtually all past reports about the NLF-that it quickly resettles areas, that it is rarely retributive toward the people in areas it takes over, that it especially looks after children. The much publicized suffering in South...
What the NLF and PRG will do after they take Saigon is as hard to judge as the current state of Da Nang and Hue--any judgment has to be based on NLF statement and past actions. The NLF has said repeatedly that it favors the ouster of Thieu and an immediate tripartite government in South Vietnam and continued North Vietnam control of be the North. That system, however seems likely to be only a temporary one what Vietnamese needs is a unified socialist strong based in cooperative rural communists where still liberties are preserved. There is nothing...
...than the American papers, and Agence France-Presse's Hanoi bureau largely limited itself to monitoring NLF broadcasts (which, Le Monde reported, "everyone" in South Vietnam was listening to,) Whatever the reason, there was hardly any information about the new PRG. There was one NLF photograph of people thronging Da Nang's apparently newly peaceful shopping district, and one UPI dispatch indicating that NLF occupiers were releasing their comrades in local jails. And that was about all Millions of Americans read the exciting UPI story about the last desperate ride out of Da Nang, but no one in this country...
...State Department directed U.S. Ambassador Frank Carlucci to raise these concerns with President Francisco da Costa Gomes and inform him that the leftward tilt was inimical to U.S. and NATO interests. Five other NATO countries officially voiced similar complaints. The Administration was consulting its European allies about means of imposing a kind of quarantine within the alliance. As Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger put it, "It will have to take some symbolic form ? making them outcasts without casting them out." Explained another official: "We would deny access to classified documents that circulate in the alliance and disinvite them...
...wake of fears that the Communists would seize control of the government, possibly jeopardizing American bases and imperiling NATO's southern flank, Lisbon has sought to reassure Washington of its desire for continued good relations and its commitment to the Atlantic Alliance. Last week President Francisco da Costa Gomes also promised that the outcome of the April 25 elections for a constituent assembly would be respected. But it was almost impossible to see how the elections could any longer be considered an accurate measure of Portuguese opinion, with some parties outlawed and others fearing to stage rallies...