divisions from North Vietnam into the south. This, in time, would

become one of the worst blood baths of the war. This continued

through 1975, when the enemy came to be in near Saigon, and elements

of the underground political opposition came into the open and held

meetings to voice their antigovernment feelings. The government moved

in and on March 27 1975, arrested a number of poeple suspected of

plotting a coup. On April 2 1975, the South Vietnamese Senate even

adopted a resolution holding President Thieu personnally responseable

for the detiorating situation and asking him to take immediate steps

to form a broader cabinet. It was speculated that to save what they

could, the government should send a plenipotentiary to Paris and ask

the Fench governmentto act as official intermediary in negotiations to

be conducted with the Communists. But President Thieu appeared only

Demands that President Thieu should resign and transfer his

powers at once to General Duong Van Minh were resurrected in earnest.

A coalition government led by General Minh, it was said, stood a

better chance of being accepted by the Commu

Palace. After President Huong took over, he immediatly went about

The Communists did not have a solid structure in Saigon - negotiations

President Minh waited in vain for a favorable word from the

to the total withdrawl of troops from Vietnam, but the opinions

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