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Ready to Die. Thieu is not quite home free yet. Though Ky's supporters have filed a taxpayer's suit charging that the election was an unconstitutional fraud, there is little likelihood that the returns will be invalidated by the Supreme Court; after all, Thieu can usually count on the loyalty of six of its nine appointees. Ky's men say that he is "ready to die in the struggle." Since the election, he has been cloistered in his heavily guarded mansion at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase, where he is doubtless trying...
There seems no likelihood that negotiation with the North can result in rapid or early demobilization of this force. The best planning assumption seems to be military stalemate and withering away of the war, a process that can last for a decade or more (unless an international body undertakes to keep the peace in Indo-China by maintaining a military presence there...
Military Resistance. There seems little likelihood that any country besides the United States will provide military assistance to Vietnam. As it has in Korea, the U.S. will presumably have to continue such aid on a bilateral basis. Of course the more international peacekeeping there can be, the less the need for Vietnamese mobilization, with its attendant costs, there will...
...There seems no likelihood that negotiation with the North can result in rapid or early demobilization of this force (of 1.2 million South Vietnamese soldiers)," Smithies writes. "The best planning assumption seems to be military stalemate and withering away of the war, a process that can last for a decade or more...
Thus Nixon had a sudden opportunity to impose his own philosophy on the court. His appointees, moreover, in all likelihood will continue to influence the nation's legal system-with potentially vast impact on society-long after Nixon leaves office...