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...October 22, 1971, eleven days after the U.S. privately delivered its peace plan to the North Vietnamese, the Saigon government of President Nguyen Van Thieu publicly bragged that it would assassinate its opponents in the PRG (Provisional Revolutionary Government). As they "lay down their arms" prior to elections organized under the framework of the present Saigon government all members of the PRG infrastructure and military forces would be wiped...
...necessary condition for lasting peace in Vietnam is the annihilation of all PRG forces which have infiltrated rural and urban areas, reported the weekly publication of the Saigon embassy in Paris...
...Thieu of the Saigon government had agreed to step down one month before a new presidential election, and that the election itself would take place six months after the U.S. had completed its withdrawal. On January 26, Thieu's foreign minister stated that before there could be elections the PRG troops would have to lay down their arms and accept 'reintegration' into the community...
...concerned that the removal of civilians on their own "free will" from northernmost to southernmost South Vietnam--which began in late October--would hinder a positive response from Hanoi to his peace plan. The relocation project grew to impressive dimensions in early January. On January 13 the PRG charged that the Saigon government's plan to relocate one million civilians would create a free-fire-zone in northernmost South Vietnam in which the U.S. could use tactical nuclear weapons. Peking and Hanoi have also expressed concern over relocation...
...return of so much airpower to the Indochina battle-field hides the fact that the Nixon Administration does not really fear that Hanoi and the PRG can do much damage to the Thieu regime during Tet, the lunar new year. When questioned about the situation a highly placed official appeared to hope that Hanoi would expend all its energies during Tet on the theory that its whole military apparatus would be destroyed. During the next four years that Hanoi would require to rebuild its forces, the 'force of reason' and a decrease in Russian and Chinese aid would convince Hanoi...