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a RE: COUNTERORIENTATION WEEK * . nr. Sa RT ae ed Front so that they've formed an alliance between those two alliances essentially. Now in addition to that, the Vietnamese said that they have another category of people that they're trying to win over and these are people who do not want to join either of these two fronts, people who are usually part of the Saigon administration or anti-Communist, but at the same time anti-American, at least in a sense that they understand that the U. S. has to get out because of the war; otherwise, it's leading to the destruction of Vietnam, or even to the fact that they've just sort of seen the light and sort of which way the cards have fallen and they understand that for their own survival if they don't hurry up and get over to the other side now, that it's going to be, you know, that they're going to be defeated. And nebody wants to be on the losing side. AES? PRS TERMITES OTN Ck ae ie Now, they have this third category which includes —_—— people who haven't joined orgrnizationally in either of the alliances or the front but is sort of a, in an organizational category, but a cateyory based on what pe sple do. They say well we won't judge you by your past or what kind of things you've done in the past, but we'll judge you by what kinds of concrete deeds you do now in terms of aiding the liberation struggle. And this category is for people who have not joined the United Front of the Vietnamese People, have not joined the Provisional Revolutionary Government, but who stand on the side of it in terms of specific deeds that they do to further the liberation struggle. Now in terms of what all that means, in terms of the ‘outcome that will happen after the war, all elements, even the anti- Communist ones ae within the Alliance of National Democratic and Peace Forces, have, and they're a minority group in-there, have accepted the position of reunification and no element or strata within the front has given up on that. In terms of, some people were, like some of the Americans ask questions, they're somewhat worried well, you know, and we talked to the People's Revolutionary Party people, they say well are you guys really, I mean does this weaken you, the fact that the front gets broader and broader. You know, and they point to the example of Algeria. They even thought the Algerians won it militarily from the French, that they are politically 122 --y “oF — + : a -- > a en —— f