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...Southeast Asia for having "bought time for some 200 million people to develop without their being ceaselessly confronted with combined external-internal Communist threats of growing proportions." There is not the slightest suggestion that the Vietnamese people might just possibly prefer the NLF to the rule of Marshal Ky and his cronies and to the wholesale destruction of their country. Such simplistic treatment of the Southeast Asian national liberation movements is paradoxical in a statement that condemns the mass media for "inducing the fears and stereotypes that inhibit rational thought." To take the signers of the statement at their...
...willing to participate in a coalition government. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg then told the United Nations that this country would have no objections. That was the first -- and last -- indication that the United States was ready to face up to the give and take of peacemaking. But after Gen. Ky and his cronies squawked loudly to Washington, Goldberg was made to swallow his words...
...Saigon government, relatively new to the throne, shows little interest in sharing power with anyone. If there is to be peace in the for seeable future, the United States will have to overcome Ky's obstinance and proceed in the real interest of both this country and Vietnam. The Administration must show itself ready to find a political solution, including a political compromise...
...recognized as a political party, and it is not entirely out of the question that they might be permitted to administer the hamlets that they now control, which, by the government's probably optimistic estimate, contain only 17% of the population. In that kind of arrangement, the Thieu-Ky administration would keep hold of the central government, all the cities, and those rural areas that it controls...
...surprisingly, the Thieu-Ky forces bitterly oppose any such plan. But Communist cadres have been working hard on their villages for years and, although under increasing military pressure, their political infrastructure remains essentially intact. For the central government, the problem is not merely rooting out that infrastructure, but also creating an effective anti-Communist substitute. This the government has been unable to do, partly because the Viet Cong have so coolly assassinated practically every mayor, doctor, teacher or engineer who opposed them in areas that they dominate...