SAIGON PREPARING MASSACRE DRIVE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: January 24, 1973
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DAILY WORLD
2 4 JAN' 1973
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The President's scheduled
speech, broadcast live over TV
and radio, came after a day of
reports out of France and White
House hints that a cease fire had
l?een intialed in Paris and an
agreement awaited only formal
signature.
The Hanoi newspaper Nhan
Dan ("The People") demanded
"checking the hands of the war
maniacs who are stepping up the
'war and terror in South Vietnam. "I
in an editorial yesterday describ-
ed as "much more harsh than
-usual" by U.S. news sources in
Saigon. The newspaper said that
Saigon puppet troops and police,
under cover of heavy air attacks
by ' U.S. planes, were launching
terrorist offensives against many
areas gong controlled by the South
Vietnamese patriots.
.against the National Liberation Front and partisans of peace in South Vietnam.
Daily World Combined Services
Even as President Nixon was speaking to the country last night of advances towards
a cease-fire in Vietnam, the ilanoi press warned that Saigon was unleashing a terror drive
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The U.S. military command in
Saigon admitted that U.S. planes
flew their beavie: t air strikes in
the past five months against South
Vietnamese targets: 450 fighter-
bomber strikes yesterday com-
pared to last Friday's 400 and
Thursday's 335. Not included in
this total were 27 three-plane
D-52 missions, because in theory
the B-52s are not under the U.S.
command in Saigon but directly
under the Strategic Air Command
(SAC).
Nixon's speech followed a
meeting with Henry Kissinger,
his special adviser. who returned
from private talks in Paris yester-
day with Le Due 'Tito, special
adviser to the Democratic Re-
public of Vietnam delegation.
The Nixon announcement Caine
almost four years t- the day after
the Paris tail, br .n on Jan...").
1059 and 'i'2 hours alter a giant
antiwar protest in the Capital of
150,000 persons. U.S. news sources
said that a cease-fire was indeed
in the works, and that it was ex-
pected to "closely parallel" the
Oct. 20 agreement between the
DRV and U.S., which the U.S. has
been refuse, g to sign up to now.
The Oct. 20 agreement called
for a cease-fire to take effect 24
hours after the nine-point end-
war agreement was signed. All
U.S. troops would be withdrawn
'within 60 days and all U.S. prison-
ers of war returned within the
same time-period.
Within South Vietnam, and free
from any foreign interference,
repre::entativcs of the Provisional
Revolutionary Government of
South Vietnam,theSaigon regime,
and neutralist forces would estab-
lish a Natior?al Concord adminis=-
tration to sup.rvise free and dem-
ocratic elections in which the
South Vietnamese people would
determine their own future. .
If this arrangement is to work
however, it is clear that the U.S.
and the Saigon puppet regime can-
not use it to carry out the kind of
"white terror" the world has so
often witnessed in the past in
South Vietnam and elsewhere. Yet
the step-tip in U.S. bombings to
support Saigon's widespread at-
tacks against liberated areas
seem to he the same sort of
"white terror" as was seen in
Finland, Hungary, Bavaria and
other places in the early 1920s. ,
The Paris newspaper, Le Fig-
aro, said that a new "civil war"
would probably break out in South
Vietnam, and L'Aurore, another
Paris newspaper, said that the
sharp escalation in ground and
air operations "casts the most
serious doubt" on any peace
agreement.
According to reports in the U.S.
news services and press. Saigon
puppet President Nguyen Van
Thicnt intcvt,is to proclaim a "cur-
few" immediately after anc ce:ise
fire, which will forbid any South
Vietnamese to leave his home.
Those caught out in the open.
under the prevailing martial
law of the Saigon regime can be
shot down for any or no reason.
The Saigon newspapers on llon-
day said that Thieu's planned.
drastic controls to go into effect
after a cease-fire include orders
to the puppet troops and police to
"shoot anyone stirring up
trouble among the population or
inciting to rebellion and support
of tlie Communists."
Saigon government and U.S.
sources said that Thieu has order-
ed his 16.561 Rural Development
officers - actually an operation
of the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency - to "administer" villag-
es and hamlets in all areas under
Saigon police or military control.
after the cease-fire.
The Soviet news agency TASS
reported from Washington last
Friday that it had learned that the
CIA's notorious "Operation Phoe-
nix" to assassinate South Viet-
namese patriotic leaders would
be continued after any cease-fire.
TASS also said a new terror
plan. called .'F-6 " provided for
savage reprisals against oppon-
ents of the Thicu regime, and it
noted that in 11,72 alone, tine Sai-
gon police murdered 26.000 op-
ponents of Thicu.
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