Article about the Việt Cộng in the Paris Peace Talks and the South Vietnamese budget deficit

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Article about the Việt Cộng in the Paris Peace Talks and the South Vietnamese budget deficit

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Original title: "focus", Article draft about Tran Buu Kiem leading the Việt Cộng's delegation to the Paris Peace Talks and the South Vietnamese government's budget deficit, for the Christian Science Monitor

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SAIGON, DECEMBER 16-Communist sources indicate the significance
of the Viet Cong's sending Tran Buu Kiom to Paris to head their
delegation at the expanded peace talks xom
significant for two reasons:
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1. The Viet Cong-called the National Liberation Front-are
preparing on their side to shift the peace talks from preliminary
procedural questions to discussions on substance-probably the first
item on the agenda being the "de-foreignization" of the war in south
and the withdrawal of American, North Vietnamese and other "foreign"
troops.
2. Kiom is known as a very tough, hard-line Communist with
considerable experience in secret negotiations.
A member of the
Communist Party, the so-called foreign minister of the National Liberation
Front, Kiem patiently organized the Viet Cong delegations who have
beon traveling abroad on diplomatic-propaganda missions for the past
months.
A member of the National Liberation Front's Presidium and
Chariman of the Commission for External Relations of the Central Committee,
Kiem once served as the resident, but unofficial National Liberation Front
representative in Cambodia, and largely ta du to due to his effrots
efforts that Prince Sihanouk has been fairly lenient in his attitudes
towards Viet Cong use of Cambodia as a sanctuary and supply corridor.
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South Vietnamese government officials are predicting their largest
war-time budget--and budget deficit-in the eight eight-year//history of
For caland cald calendar year 1969-which is also the Vietnamese
fiscal year-officials are estimating a war-time budget of 130 billion
piastres (1.1 billion dollars), and ad with more than one third of that
ox 50 billion piastres (420 million dollars) as deficit.
more revenue, the government has begun a multitude of steps--some of
which have stat started a chain reaction of economic compimirts from the
urban population.
Several weeks ago, the government out a portion
To gain
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of its subsidy on imported rice, thus raising the price of American and
Thai rice in the cities by as much as thirty per cent.
It is the poorer
classes in the cities which had been eating the imported rice; the Viens
homegrown Vietnamese rice being scarcer and more expensive. The government
action brought created a controversy both in the Vietnamese-language press
a nd in the legislative assemblies as a came at a time of traditional
pri increases in the cost of living before the holidays and especially
VIETNA
before the Vietnamese new year in February. I Business circles had
been predicting a hike in government taxes-but, fearing hoarding and
speculation on essential commodities, the government denied 1969 taxes would
be increased. Instead, the government warned commercial enterprises-00
especially foreign for firms--to pay up the he
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which have yet to be collected.
taxes for 1967 and 1968,
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Date

1967, Dec. 16

Subject

Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam (Republic)--Politics and government; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Taxation; Budget deficits; Underpayment of taxes; War tax resistance; Peace; Peace treaties; Diplomacy

Location

Saigon, South Vietnam

Coordinates

10.8231; 106.6311

Size

20 x 26 cm

Container

B11, F4

Format

dispatches

Collection Number

MS 363

Collection Title

Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers

Creator

Keever, Beverly Deepe

Collector

Keever, Beverly Deepe

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Publisher

Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Language

English