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...forces of the Provisional Revolutionary Government underscore the extremely tense situation in South Vietnam. President Nixon's less than veiled threat during South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu's visit to San Clemente last week to resume U.S. air bombardment in Vietnam can only serve to make the Saigon leader more adventurous...
...Back in Saigon, there are now only 159 U.S. Marines guarding the U.S. embassy, but there are 9,000 American civilians still in South Viet Nam, about 3,000 of them looking for work. Saigonese call them "the new carpetbaggers." They can be seen sipping beer on the terrace of the Continental Palace or walking on Tu Do Street in flowered, flared pants and "Keep On Truckin" T shirts. In just three months, International Personnel Services has recruited 500 customers. Says its manager, E.V. Nickerson: "There are a lot of Americans looking for work, and most of them...
...Thieu's trip, Saigon issued a flurry of announcements designed to show that the regime no longer felt itself on the defensive. Thieu signed an amnesty order freeing 967 political prisoners, among them Truong Dinh Dzu, who ran a strong second to Thieu in the 1967 election. Dzu had been jailed shortly thereafter for suggesting what Thieu is doing now: negotiating with the Communists. The next to be amnestied were Saigon's bars and nightclubs, which were allowed to reopen after having been closed since last May by Thieu as an austerity measure. Then, at a rally...
Thieu himself was out and around more last week than he had been in months. He flew most of his government aides-and a good part of the Saigon diplomatic corps-down to Can Tho, a city deep in the Mekong Delta, for what he called a "farmer's day" outing that was as heavy on bands, pretty girls, prize pigs and political corn as an Iowa state fair. When a 40-man bicycle race was about to start, Thieu expropriated one bike to take a turn through the crowd. "He leads a merry pace," Foreign Minister Tran...
Thieu's new confidence is not baseless. If the Paris agreement has not ended the fighting, it has also not led to the political upheavals that many observers in both Washington and Saigon feared might soon overwhelm Thieu. Saigon's 1,100,000-man military machine, the basis of Thieu's strength, has not collapsed; indeed, ARVN desertions have declined since the ceasefire. Thieu is also cheered by the unexpected ease with which his forces have retaken almost all of the 400 villages that were seized by the Communists in the confusion following the Jan. 23 initialing...