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Throughout our conversation, Siphan insisted that the United States and the Saigon regime fulfill their end of the January bargain. He asserted that the Saigon government could not stand without U.S. aid. An aid cutoff would have an important but not decisive influence on events in the South. Siphan said that as economic conditions worsen and the morale of the populace and the army sinks, the people will force President Thieu to obey the peace agreement...
Siphan pointed out that the United States's return to the policies of the Kennedy era-- of providing arms, aid and advisors to the Saigon regime--impaired the expression of popular sentiment. I suggested that perhaps the role of U.S. advisors was now somewhat different, as they help to maintain rather than to create a technologically advanced war machine. Siphan said that he doubted that the United States could do more with 10,000 advisors than with a half million troops. He considered the presence of the advisors an indication that Nixon had something to hide...
Siphan was anxious that Americans exert pressure on the Saigon regime to release its political prisoners, conservatively estimated at 100,000 by the London-based Amnesty International group. Other problems such as the use of chemical defoliants by Saigon forces were not so important, since Siphan was sure that the Provisional Revolutionary Government would be able to overcome them...
...years after his murder in a bloody military coup, the memory of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem last week stirred a curious nostalgia in Saigon. About 3,000 Diem supporters marched to the city's Victorian cathedral to attend a memorial service, then moved on to a nearby cemetery where Diem lies buried under an inconspicuous concrete slab. Gongs tolled. Drums thumped. Buddhist monks intoned prayers. Two Catholic bands played the national anthem...
...activities. In 1968, he visited Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand with the American Friends Service Committee, meeting with representatives of the NLF and North Vietnam. The three week study of Indochina's political structure and the effects of the war was extended unexpectedly when Mendelsohn's party was trapped in Saigon for ten days by the Tet offensive. "We saw the war a lot closer than we had planned," Mendelsohn recalls now. Upon his return, Mendelsohn embarked on his long, sometimes lonely campaign of putting antiwar resolutions before the Harvard faculty. Last December, during the peak of the carpet-bombing...