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58 PEACE °*! VIET! about throughout the country. ... The freedom «, ° postal changes will be puaranteed.2# Statements of the National Liberation Front’s negotiating { tion were given to an American professor, Robert S. Browne, a French journalist, Georges Chaflard. These indicate consider extension from the ten-point program which did pot deal dire with negotiation or the Geneva accords. Browne reports that the National Liberation Front calls 1. An immediate cease-fire, with a freezing of the current mil position. 2. Adjudication by an international body in districts where cor is in dispute, 3. United States preparation and execution of troop withdr over a six-month period. 4. A district-by-district election campaign from which a coal government could emerge,#? Chaffard received a longer and more comprehensive stater from Huyn Tan Phat, the Vice-President of the National Lib tion Front: Our first task will be to rebuild the economy of South Vietnam. that we will need . . . foreign economic aid and foreign investm .. To get aid from western countries we will have to folle policy of neutrality. We know the capitalists. They will want gu: tees. We are realists. Even United States aid will be welcome. The unification of the armed forces and of the administration coexistence of cadres of diverse origins . . . this is going to pr delicate problems... , We shail be obliged to observe neutrality. How Jong will that Ten years? Fifteen? More perhaps. . . . We will not even approach the problem of unification for a Jong time. . . . One can see that the... structure... will | more from the north. That will delay reunification. . . . Wher time comes for unification it will take place on a basis precludin; nexation of one zone by another.#! *™ Marcus G. Raskin, Bernard B. Fall, The VietNam Readcr, pp. 216 ™ New York Times, July 22. 1965. ™ Viet Report, July 1965, quoting PExpresse, April 25, 1965.