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363-07243 to 363-07249
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Title
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Article about the National Liberation Front's seventh birthday
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Description
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Original title: "birthday", Keever's title: "Viet Cong's National Liberation Front Celebrates 7th Brithday in South Vietnam", Article draft about the National Liberation Front's (Việt Cộng's) seventh birthday, for the Christian Science Monitor
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Transcript
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2020 sag
yy-1jp
birthday 1 (normass/deepe)
SAIGON, December 18--South Vietnam's National Liberation
Front has ordered its biggest birthday celebrations to commemorate
the seventh anniversary of its founding on December 20th.
The celebrations are expected to focus on propaganda
and study sessions about their its recently issued 14-point program,
concentrating especka especially in areas under Vietnamese government
control. The most gallant fighters and political cadre have also
been promised their rewards, medals and awards on the Democrb
December 20th anniversary.
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202c sag
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birthday 2 (normass/deepe)
In a radio broadcast last week, the Front-the
political headquarters of the Viet Cong guerrillas and regulars-
ordered the der celebrations to be conducted "everywhere in the
liberated areas (comment) (Communist-controlled)
as well as in
19
the eny enemy-controled controlled (Vietnamese government) areas.
The orders for the celebration was contained in a communique issued
by Nguyen Huu Tho,
am top leader of the Front.
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"
This political offensive within South Vietnam propagandizing
the 14-point program is expected here to match a similar diplomatic
PROGRAM
and intentional offensive advertising their monger-term aff
at the United Nations and other international points. PLACESO
The 14-point program concentrates on these four main aims:
first "unite the entire people, fight the United States aggressors,
Save the Country;" second, "Build an independent, democratic, p
peaceful, neutral and prosperous South Vietnam;" third,
restore normal relations between North and South Vietnam.
toward Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland;"
Proceed
and fourth,
Apply a Foreign Policy of Peace and Neutrality."
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birthday 4 (normass/deepe)
The propagandization and study sessions are also expected
to be emphasized during the three-day Communist Christmas ceasefire,
the three day their three-day New Year ceasefire and their seven-day
lunar new year ceasefire in late January.
The 14-point program differe differs from the original
10-point platform issued seven years ago when the Front was founded
first by giving slightly more prominence to gradual re-unification
with North Vietnam and second more detailed and concrete promises
to various segments of the South Vietnamese population, especially
those elements now supporting the American-backed South Vietnamese
regime.
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zczc sag
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birthday 5 (normass/deepe)
The promises in the 14-point program
are
especially
directed at winning the nationalist elements, such as the South
Vietnamese armed forces and civil servants, away from the South
which would survi serve to ima sap
Vietnamese government,
the strength of the present government of President Nguyen Van Thieu,
thus isolating both the Saigon government and its American, South
Korean, Australian, New Zealand, Thai and Filippino backers.
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1967,
Since the 14-point program was issued in mid-August,
the Communists have been gathering villagers for one-hour
study sessions on the program during the x midnight hours.
Intelligence sources indicate these study sessions have been organized
even in Gia Dinh province, the doughnut-shaped province comprising
The Communists have
the suburban outskirts of Saigon itself.
Sessions
also kidnapped government soldiers, given them indoctrination about
the 14-point program,
and then released them asking them to
spread the word about their program to other government fighters.
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birthday 7 (normass/deepe)
Instructions for the seven seventh anniversary celebration,
issued on the "Liberation Radio" on Becb December the thirteenth,
occasion. These
specified a four-step process to prepare for the
were first criticism and self-oriticism sessions
among the Viet Cong
political and military membership, education of the Viet Cong cadre
"to make them cons conscious of the situation and their mission,"
then dissemination of the dors conclusions to the South Vietnamese
population, including elements in the cities now supporting the
WAR
AB
pro-American
effort and finally listing of most
heroic individuals who would be nominated for rewards and awards
for their
achievements in 1967.
(Hank: I'll cable another short piece tomorrow. Bov).
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Date
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1967, Dec. 18
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B7, F5
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
