North Vietnams Minister of Public Security laid down this official policy for dealing with dissidents: In our dealings with counterrevolutionary elements in the recent past. we have still ... not properly used violence. In and out of Congress. many have salved their consciences with the assumption that South Vietnamese people really prefer communism anyway. For those Americans. it should be interestingand disturbingto see on television that the hundreds of thousands of refugees.. who flee for their lives from the recently abandoned provinces. are moving south on the clogged highways--not north. On the face of the record. it is just unrealistic to suggest that an end to. U.S. aid will end the killing in Vietnam.
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