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...wake of President Nixon's disclosures of secret negotiations on January 25, Le Monde and other newspapers have concluded that the "real stumbling block" in the Vietnam peace talks is the kind of government that would replace the present regime in Saigon in order to organize elections...
...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...
Even Thieu's supporters were finding that argument difficult to rebut. Doc Lap, a Saigon newspaper that has generally supported the government in the past, expressed the mood in a poem addressed to Nixon...
There were other equally ominous, if less certain signs. Persistent reports in Saigon told of dogs being poisoned in nearby villages-an indication that Communist troops were due to pass through them at night. Some villagers had also been told by the Communists to store up a 15-day supply of food. Captured enemy documents told of a "nationwide spring campaign" to be launched early this week, and one defector volunteered the campaign's slogan: "One day's effort will make up for 20 years of fighting." A contradictory document ordered Viet Cong cadres "not to start anything...
...except for the organizational prowess of Nixon may well have given the G.O.P. nomination to Ronald Reagan in 1968. Supporters of this doctrine are for an economy free from control and against power politics diplomacy which supposedly furthers American interests at the expense of our "friends" in Taiwan and Saigon...