| Show Vietnam I Future Columnist Bill Buckley recently reo re- raised an interesting point concerning the future of South Vietnam a point not usually considered by some somo viewing the Vietnamese di die lemma HE SUG SUGGESTS TS the transfer of US U.S. military equipment weapons ships and planes planes' etc to the South Vietnamese be accomplished with maxi mum publicity and ceremony THIS IS desirable to let the world know that South Vietnam Viet Viet- nam is taking over the war against North Vietnamese a ago ag g. g It is i s also desirable because the South Vietnamese once strong enough are not not I likely to be bound by the I same restraints which hate haie i limited US U.S. action against again North Vietnam In other words the South Vietnamese are likely to close or make an effort to close close North Vietnamese ports They might undertake amphibious invasions of the North Vietnamese Vietnamese Viet Viet Viet- namese coast or air attacks against North Vietnam I IF WE TURN the war over overto to them as we are in the he I i i process of doing they are i I going to make the decisions I as to how to carry it on In the past Red China and aM i Russia have warned that such moves by the United States would bring about retaliation Yet such action is likely to be undertaken by a Saigon government gov goy bent on making the cost of continued aggression a atoo too high for Hanoi r j L IF IT IS c clear 1 ear S. S Saigon algon is 15 con con- I 1 j ducting its own war retaliation retail I alion by Russia and Chia j is less Jess likely 11 1 |
