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...selling of the candidates is already well under way. In the old imperial capital of Hue last week, President Nguyen Van Thieu stood at smiling attention in a packed reviewing stand as he presided over a parade celebrating South Viet Nam's "glorious victory" in Laos. In Saigon, meanwhile, his Vice President and chief rival, Nguyen Cao Ky, was putting on a show of his own. "You ask why we did not have a victory parade after our successful campaign in Cambodia last year?" he chortled during a talk at a welfare workers' school in Cholon...
...carefully and intelligently paved the way for better relations with China, won widespread support for this policy. At the same time last week he seemed to turn a few decibels more strident about Viet Nam. He not only reiterated that the U.S. would keep "residual" forces there until the Saigon government was reasonably secure, but he also pledged the continuing use of airpower "against North Viet Nam and its forces" until Hanoi has freed every American prisoner. Freeing the prisoners is a goal all Americans fervently desire, but it is questionable whether Nixon's tone and method can achieve...
...treaty, negotiated last December between representatives of the National Student Association and the student unions in Hanoi and Saigon, calls for the immediate and total withdrawal of all American forces from South Vietnam, and binds those who ratify it "to take whatever actions are appropriate to implement" the treaty...
There are major political implications to the heroin problem. One of Saigon's leading opposition papers, the Tin Dien, asked sarcastically: "Who wants to kill this regime? The rulers or the Communists?" The fact that some of Thieu's supporters are implicated in the heroin trade does not mean that the government either condones or encourages the illegal trafficking. Nonetheless, the paper pointed out that if Thieu failed to cope with the heroin scandal, it would be a major defeat for his regime. There is also considerable speculation that Hanoi may be facilitating the flow of cheap heroin...
...heroin scandal only heightens already tense relations between Washington and Saigon. After the mauling of ARVN troops in Laos, many South Vietnamese are blaming the U.S. for sending in their troops to do an American job. "At a time when relations between the two countries have sunk to an all-time low," reports TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Jonathan Larsen, "the heroin scandal ticks away like a time bomb in the corner." Since politicking is already beginning for next October's presidential elections, the heroin smuggling will clearly be a major campaign issue...