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...palatable to the North Vietnamese is a question which requires close attention. Of even more crucial importance, however, are the ways in which the various South Vietnamese parties adjust themselves to terms of settlement which will not give a decisive advantage to either of the main contenders, the Saigon government and the Provisional Revolutionary Government...
While the North Vietnamese consider the council to be a "power structure" with administrative independence from the Saigon government and the PRG, the United States sees it as an "institutionalization of the electoral commission" that it had previously proposed. In his October 26 news conference. Henry A. Kissinger '50 failed to stress the organizational independence of the council or to specify that the PRG would have the right to participate. Kissinger has stated that the council will operate on a principle of unanimity, but further details on its functioning are lacking...
...period of uncertainty and transition that lies ahead, the main question is whether?or when?the Red flag will go up over Saigon. Most experts now believe that the chances of a Communist takeover within the next five years are actually quite slim. Historically, strong central governments have been disliked in the South, and most of the Southerners are either anti-Communist or neutral. The Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army now control between one-third and one-half of the land but only an estimated 10% of the population, all in thinly settled rural areas. The crowded cities...
...planning to join in, with aid, trade and investments. Sweden has announced that it will give $70.5 million to North Viet Nam over the next three years. The French, who have never got Viet Nam out of their blood, will seek to revive the huge Michelin rubber plantations near Saigon, which are now producing at scarcely 40% of prewar levels. The French also plan to make investments in transportation and trucking in the South. Meanwhile, in West Germany, Britain and other nations, businessmen are looking forward to winning construction or development contracts...
Buchwald has been having a ball with the Watergate caper. Last week he fantasied a post-cease-fire briefing-as conducted by Washington's C.R.P. (Committee for the Re-Election of the President)-for Saigon politicos on how to win a Viet Nam reunification election: set up committees like "Viet Cong for Thieu," force special interests to contribute $10 million, protect donors' identity by routing contributions through Mexican banks, and send the money back to Saigon to buy "bugging equipment, miniature cameras, disappearing ink, forged letterheads-all the usual paraphernalia that anyone needs for a free and open...