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363-04316 to 363-04323
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Title
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Article about President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu's cabinet
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Description
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Original title: "cabinet", Keever's title: "U.S Ellection and Bloody War Make Paris Peace Talks - A slideshow." Article about the expected change in President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu's cabinet, especially an expected inclusion of members of Liên minh các Lực lượng Dân tộc, Dân chủ và Hòa bình Việt Nam (Alliance of National Democratic and Peaceful Forces of Vietnam). Written 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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SAIGON, MAY 13-As the world peepholes the diplomatic birth of
Washington-Hanoi peace talks,
observers here are watching the political
He Re
race between the anti-Communist government/ and the allegedly pro-Communist
peace alliance.
The tacit, crucial political race is considered to be shaping-
up or already underway as President Nguyen Van Thieu is slated to
announce this week a change in his Cabinet. An important
of
the change is w
REGARDED
Considered here
AS
e dampening the widespread
criticism of his em regime and blocking of potential defections
of any more disgruntled Vietnamese perioolice od intelligensia to
the allged pro-Communist Alliance of National, Democracy and Peace Forces.
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on the other f side, the allegedly pro-Communist 11 ponce
affic alliance is reported to be organizing a "people's congre congress" to
swoll their ranks and leadership and to further indict the gu Thiou
government and hasten its destruction.
Underground cadre of
identifyin identifying themsleves thonisl themselves with the peace alliance
have been circulating in sig saigon recently,
urging, in face-to-face
conversations, that national political party loaders, social and religious
personalities on join their pro-Communist ranks.
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"The (pro-Communist) cadre told me I
should be ready to li leave
for the big congress of the Alliance anytime after May 2," ono
por merens who was contacted reported.
o "One curious foature of the
Congress was a guarantoo that each participant would be placed in a soparate
stall so that no one would know who olse was prosent. I invented a reason
why I couldn't go."
whether the curront Allied militery success in blocking the Communist
big-unit offensive into Saigon has squelched or temporarily delayed
the planned congress
© "people's congress" is unknown hore at
this time.
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President
Thieu's scheduled Cabinet change,
came as no surprise to Saigon; the surprise was that it cam so late.
Saicon has been dancing with rumors of a Cabinet shake-up since the Tet
offensive, when President mieu actually considered a reshuffle, but
was blocked by of conflicting power groups within the government.
Even recently,
did not know if the
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sources close to President Thieu said they
involved only a Cabinet shake-up, or also a
change in the Prime Miser, or a shift in the character of the Cabinet
from one of technocrats to one of politicians.
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Vietnam han a DoGaulle-styled Presidential systom of government
in which the prime minister and the cabinet act as sort of a sf
safety valve," one informed source explained.
tuomior" When the pressure becomes too great underneath,
the Prosidont
can let the steam escape without an oxplosion by changing the Cabinet or
the Primo Minister. The continuity and logality of the govermont is
maintained by the President offices of the President and the Vice President,
and they can put the blame on the administrative administr
administrators,
go wrong."
implomontors
and technocrats in the Cabinet when things
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Some diplomatic sources speculated tire thero might be an outside
chance fixnxmat
xnmx the selection
of some key loft-ming political personalities for a few key posts might
reflect a slight modulation of current official li policy against the
formation of a coalition government with the Commuh Communist National
Liberation Front.
"The Americans thought they could win the political war by
making the government more democratic," onoWestern diplomat explained.
"But after six months of an elected government,
to be working.
Now,
that plan does not soom
no one can make this
government more democraticis simply to make less anti-Communist."
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From this vantage point, some informed sources and Western diplomatis
consider Paris a the Paris peace talks as "a sideshow to the increasingly
bitter and bloody politico-military war boing fought in the South. Not many
scom to believe the Paris peace talks with docide many substantive
matters affecting the onding the war in the South Vietnam until after the
American Presidential nominating conventions, if not the Amoricon election.
negotiate very much with the
"I can't soo why t' Hanoi should
one Western diplomat explained,
"until
Hanoi
a lame-duck Johnson Administration,"
after it is clear that (Sonator Robert F.) Kennedy is not going to bo
nominated. If (Hubert H.) Humphrey gets the Democratic nomination,
might seriously start negotiating thon, But, if Kennedy gets the nomination,
they'll stall. Johnson has to promise Hanoi just as much as Krite
Kennedy to get peace--and probably more. suspect Hanoi would rather
wait for a new administration If Johnson and Khne Konnedy both offor
Hanoi the same thing, I suspect North Vietnam would profor to wait and
accept the peace terms from Kennedy."
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Informed sources here view South Vietnam as the crucial
political pivot area scono of the critical military-polical intam
initiative which would olioit decisive reactions and repercussion e
in both Peric and the American polio political campaign.
A cap turod Communist document explaines
"100% "According to our
policy, O must fight the mor and negotiate at the same time. That then
is the purpose of fighting and negotiating?
"Negotiation
if we are to have negotiations, will sorve mainly
to provide us the groundwork from which to launch our goneral offensive.
Another reason is to expose the enemy's political attack upon us and to
show that ours is the just cause and his the unjust. This means that
the war will be settled only on the battlefield, not in the conference roon.
(Hanks I'll probably not filo tomorrow unless the government is
changods otherwise we have a full day of briefings. Regards Bov).
韓
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Date
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1968, May 13
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Subject
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Nguyễn, Văn Thiệu, 1923-2001; Liên minh các lực lượng dân tộc, dân chủ và hòa bình Việt-nam; Saigon (Vietnam); Vietnam (Republic); Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Peace; Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States; Vietnam, 1961-1975; Cabinet officers
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6312
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Size
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21 x 26 cm
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Container
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B10, F31
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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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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
