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THESE DAYS OF TET HAPPINESS ARE BROUGHT TO YOU COURTESY OF YOUR GOVERNMENT'S SOLDIERS IN THE FIELD read a banner strung across Saigon's Cong Ly Boulevard last week. All over the city, red flags-intended to summon good luck, not Communism -fluttered from balconies. Saigon's citizens celebrated with dragon parades, or gathered at pagodas to pray for financial success, domestic tranquillity and a peaceful new year. In the Chinese section of Cholon, which was badly bloodied during the Communist Tet attacks four years ago, the banners bravely promised that WHAT
...Saigon's citizens got an eerily quiet three-day Tet holiday last week, rather than the long-awaited Communist attacks. At week's end, a North Vietnamese force overran a government outpost in the Mekong Delta, killing 27 defenders. Still, the only big Tet offensive last week was an American one: hundreds of air strikes were flown against Communist targets, including long-range artillery emplacements just above the Demilitarized Zone. South Vietnamese intelligence officers believe that an early February Communist flare-up had been planned but was put aside so that Communist negotiators in Paris could make...
...less grandiose scale than in 1968. Four North Vietnamese army divisions have been dispatched from the North to reinforce troops already in the war zone. Elements of the seasoned 5th, 7th and 9th divisions are believed to have slipped across the Cambodian border into the dense jungles northwest of Saigon; U.S. intelligence sources believe that the Communist troops are prepared to launch attacks on two hours' notice. At a checkpoint outside the capital last week, a load of Communist AK-47 assault rifles was discovered in a civilian truck...
...SOME RESPECTS this pattern of accommodation would not be very different from that worked out between Saigon and the Hoa Hao. It would mean that the Viet Cong would as effectively dominate its hard-core areas as the Hoa Hao and Catholic organizations do in their villages and districts. To be sure, the indigenous Viet Cong clearly differs in important respects from the religious sects and the nationalist parties, but it also shares many characteristics with them. Up to a point, the evolution of relations between the Viet Cong and the established political system paralleled that of the sects...
...most cases be determined by the zone in which it is located. A large number of districts and the majority of provinces, however, will undoubtedly be divided between zones. At these levels, consequently, the functioning of government will require some cooperation between, and eventual integration of local NLF and Saigon governmental structures. One means of accomplishing the would be to elect province chiefs and or enlarged and strengthened provincial councils. Elections at the provincial level are likely to encourage political candidates and groups to appeal to both rural and urban voters and to promote cooperation among non-communist groups. They...