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...Vietnamization, the military phase, has been successful. Now we will enter on Phase II, which will concentrate on making Viet Nam self-reliant and stable." Last week, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu launched that program with a crisp 40-minute speech to the Saigon legislature...
Phase II, which was so named long before Richard Nixon unveiled his similarly titled economic program for the U.S., involves some high-stake risks. It gambles that the fighting is substantially over, that a recalcitrant U.S. Congress will continue to fund some $560 million a year to ease Saigon's way through a rough "transitional" period, and that South Viet Nam's 17.3 million people will soon be both willing and able to earn their own way. That is, of course, a tall order. Even at the peak of the fighting between the French and the Viet Minh...
...missions in the Republic of Viet Nam during the 24-hour period ending at noon today." The lull may mean that the war is effectively over, or it may be a kind of caesura in the apparently endless alternation of dry-season offensives and rainy-season resupply. In Saigon now, a vital concern is whether the South Vietnamese economy can be made less dependent on U.S. aid; early this week, President Nguyen Van Thieu is expected to announce economic reforms aimed at that goal...
...targets in eastern Cambodia included supply lines and base camps above highway seven, about 90 miles north of Saigon, close to where the South Vietnamese troops are believed to be gathering. Field reports indicate that they are preparing to launch attacks on North Vietnamese base camps in order to relieve pressure on Cambodia troops defending the capital of Phnom Penh...
Long said that the U.S. press has kept Americans ignorant of the Vietnamese's hatred of the war. There have been four demonstrations in Saigon each involving about 10,000 students, in the last four months, he said. None of these were reported in the American press, he added...