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cM e. RE; COUNTERORIENTATION WEEK previously been neutral or wavering, but as a result of the ag i tetoffensive had politically been won over to the struggle of ae the National Liberation Front. And to get in an even broader : ay united front than the Vietnamese had ever had in the past, they A formed the Provisional Revolutionary Government. :# : Now I think that it's important to understand that the Provisional Revolutionary Government that is formed is no mere paper organization or just the NLF under another name. At this time four-fifths of the territory of South Vietnam and 11 million of the 14 million people in South Vietnam live in areas administered by the Pro isional Revolutionary Government. Now when I say administered, you have to understand that the Provisional Revolutionary Government is not just a body of political representatives, but a full civil and political administration, They have schools, they run schools, health services, post offices, develop agricultural reforms, and agri- cultural programs, agricultural activities, everything that ————— a revolutionary government can be involved in. It has in every village in the liberated areas elected }.2cal revolutionary committees that are chosen by the people in those villages by direct elections. In some of the contested areas they have Provisional Revolutionary Committees, but in the contested areas they're not elected but rather appointed until such time as those areas are secured and brought into the liberated zones when the rep.esentatives in those areas will then be elected. At this point the U. S. military strategy in Vietnam or the position of the U. &. military in Vietnam is one of completely, completely defensive position. The U. S. forces are mainly concentrated in large cities or around large military bases, and are unable to move throughout the countryside. It's sort of what used to be called Gavin's (unintelligible) Theory, only the U. S. didn't adopt it by a matter of free choice but were more or less pushed into it. Even in these completely defensive positions the U, S. bases are constantly under attack and assault from the People's Liberation Armed Forces. For instance, just one indication, 40 per cent of the U. S. military forces in Vietnam right now are dedicated totally just to the defense of the perimeter 114 a eet aeaae ES Pa a Dai Rie ene Fru re ss, .