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PRESIDENT KY UNDERSTANDS QUITE CLEARLY THE VIEWSHE U. S. GOVERNMENT ON KY'S TWO-PHA ft" PROPOSAL TO. "JUMP OVER" THE PRESENT IMPASSE ON PROCEDURAL NATO'S AT THE PARIS PACE TALKS, AND * AGREES THAT HIS PROPOSAL SHOULD NOT bTflADE NOV OR LATER EXCEPT SUBJECT FOR DISCUSSION ONCK THE SUBSTANTIVE TALKS HAVE BEGUN III
PARIS AND WITH THE DRV, NLF, USG> AND GVn PARTICIPATING, KY ALSO
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IN DISCUSSING THE SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES AND PROBLEMS. FURTHERMORE,
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KY AGREES VITH THE AMERICAN POSITION" AND MILL uOVERNCCORDINGLY.
Y AtSO APPRECIATES THE GRAVITY OF THE PROBLEM ON THE U. $ S. SIDE IN THE NEED FOR REAL PROGRESS IN THE PARIS PEACE TALKS
PRIOR TO THE CONVENING OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESSANUARY. KY'S PRINCIPAL CONCERN IN-BRINGING ABOUT- SUCH PROGRESS, HOWEVER, IS THE q STRENGTHENING OF THE PRESENT SAIGON GOVERNMENT, WHICH IS TOO WEAK .AND INEFFECTIVE TO DEAL VITH THE STRESSES AND STRAINS WHICH ^ DEVELOP ONCE THE GVN BEGINS MAKING THE CONCESSIONS IT MUST MAKE IN THE PARIS NEGOTIATIONS, NOW ON THE PROCEDURAL QUESTIONS AND LATER CN SUBSTANTIVE MATTERS, .TOETTLEMENT. PRIME MINISTER
VAN HUOH& HAS HAD TWO OPPORTUNITIES TO DEMONSTRATE HIS ABILITIES
AS PRIME MINISTER, AND IS CLEARLY NOT UP TO THE* TASK, EVEN THOUGH - '
HIS SELECTION AS PRIME MINISTER IM: THE THIEU JjOVERNMEHT WAS ORIGINALLY
MADE WITH GOOD AND SUFFICIENT POLITICAL JUSTIFICATION EHUND THE-
^ CHOICE, 'T^HE CAOINETACKLUSTER ONE,/PUT TOGETHER ONBASIS
FROM INTERIOR MINISTERROUP ETC.| THE COMPROMISING AUO POLITICAL BALANCING WHICH PUT THE CABINET TOGETHER HAVE SINCE CON*
. . CF SEVERAL^TKIEU SUPPORTERS* SEVERAL FHOf HUONG'S CAMP, SEVERAL
^ I'ULIIiCAL BALANCING WHICH PUT THt CAUJNtT JOULIMtH
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THE UNIFIED AND DECISIVE KIND OF GOVERNMENT THE GVN MUST HftVtTO
FACE THE WEEKS AND MONTHS. JUST AHEAD* AS EXAMPLE OF SVH'S PRESENT
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INF'FCTIVENESS, (THE INFORMATION MINISTER THI EN SUBMITTED HIS
I GNAT ION WEEKS AGO. IT HAS NEITHER BEEN ACCEPTED NOR REJECTED,
MEANWHILE THE UVN: PARIS PEACE TALKS &EGATION RECEIVE INADEQUATE SUPPORT FROM THE INFORMATION MINISTRY IN THE CRUCIAL PERIOD OF THE g TALKS. ROUGHLY THE SAME THING APPLIES TO THE FOR 1GN MINISTER WHO
HAS BEEN SIMILARLY UNHELPFUL IN SUPPORTING TH GVN PARIS DELEGATION.. 3. ONE SHOULD NOT DISCOUNT THtPOSSIBlLITY THAT, AS THEPAKIS ^ E TALKS CONTINUE AND CONCSSIONS ARE HADE BY THE GVN SUCH AS
**DE FACTO RECOGNITION OF THE NLF IN KY'S TWO-PHASE PROPOSAL, THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE MILITANTS AND THE "YOUNG TURKS" AMONG THE MILITARY fl, MAY INTERPRET THESE"DEVELOPMENTS AS LEADING EVENTUALLYOALITION GOVRNHENTOLITICAL SETTLEMENT WHICH MAY SET TH STAGEATER TAKOvV OFOVERNMNT BYM07USTS.
IF THIS PCELXflO BECOMES TOO WIDESPREAD AND THE GVN IS UNABLE TO 'COUNTRACT IT WITH STRONG LEADERSHIP WHICH HAS THE CONFIDENCE Of TH MILITANTS, MANY OF TH LATTER WHO ARE HOT-HAD ID "AND ULTRA-NATIONALIST jjj INDIVIDUALS IN ANY CASE, MAY WELL TAKE ACTION TO .UNSEAT THE,THIEU
GOVRNMENT, WITHOUT CONCERN FOR;OR OBLIVIOUS TO THE TREMENDOUS EFFECT
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MUST CONSIDER IN MOVING TO STRGNGHTEN TH PRESENT GOVERNMENT TO GIVE IT THE BASE OF SUPPORT NED ED TO MOVE THROUGH THE PRECARIOUS WEEKS ^ AHEAD. IN THISL VEIN, Tit GVN MUST CRACK DOWN ON THE PRESENT RELATIVELY'UNRESTRAINED SOUTH VITNAMKSE PF&S, AMD ALSO TAKE STEPS TO RENDER THE LEGISLATURE'S CRITICISM" OF THE GOVERNSSSOST OF THE LEGISLATORS ARE INDIVIDUALS WHOREAT DEAL OF TALKING BUT VfiRY LITTLE CONSTRUCTIVE SUPPORTING OF THE GOALS OF THE GOVERNMENT. THOSE WHO DO NOT WORK CONSTRUCTIVELY SHOULD BE CHANNELED.EITHER INTO SILENCE OR MORE CONSTRUCTIVE UNDER q TAKINGS, BY THE TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUE'S OF MONEYo TO THEMSILENCE WHICH THET WOULD BE HAPPY TO ACCEPT AND LICK THEIR
WOUNDS IN SILENCE, PR BY APPROPRIATE PRESSURES FROM THE COVERHHEN' WHICH MAKE THEM THINK TWICE BEFORE NEEDLESSLY OBSTRUCTING OR OTHERWISE HARASSING THE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP.
4. KY'S MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM, AND ONE WHICH MUST HE SOLVED
q WITHIN THE NEXT FEW.DAYS, NOT WEEKS, IS TO CONVINCETHIEU OF THE ABSOLUTE NEED TO ifelUFFLE TKE-CAB 1NET AND COJXUP
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EW AND MUCH MORE DECISIVE KIND of GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP, IK NEED.BE, ONE in WHICH a'VERY STRONG PRIME MINISTER WILL beIDE LATITUDE OF DECISION AND AUTHORITY, WITH THE PRESIDENT EXERCISING THE high LEVEL POLICY AUTHORITY AND DELEGATING THE REMAINDER TO THE PRIME MINISTER- '
5. EW saigon GOVERNMENT CAN pieND CAN BREATHILIFE into THE .NATION, THE GVN WILL NOT NEED MORE thanOUT OF THE COUNTRY'S POPULATION IN SUPPORT OF THE and WITH THOSE SUPPORTERS WILL be ABLE to MOV TOWARDRESOLUTION OF THE PROCEDURAL PROBLEM SUCH as THETHE TABLEnd NEGOTIATE ANDOLUTION to thewhich WILL be ACCEPTABLE to THE GVN AND SOUTH VIETNAMESEIil MM il fll li iIIIIIII IIf,nT,
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