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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 10. 23rd May 1973
[Introduction]
"...the so-called "Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam" is not an independent government. It does not meet the basic legal requirements for a government — namely control of territory and population and ability to carrry out international obligations. It does not even have a capital. It is, in fact, merely another name for the National Liberation Front, which is a political movement in arms against the Government of South Vietnam. "(Norman Kirk, in a letter to Mr Ken Stanton of Porirua, May 10 1973.
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Committee on Vietnam representatives with the Vietnamese delegation. From left to right: Mike Law, Le Hai, Peter Franks Nguyen Van Tien, Bruce Robinson, Nguyen Van Chi. Vu Quang Chuyen, Le Duy Van, Rona Bailey and Le Mai.
One of the most misunderstood aspects of the Vietnam war has been the nature of the South Vietnamese opposition to the United States and its many puppet governments in Saigon. Western newspapers have persisted in calling the N.L.F. and then the P.R.G. the "viet cong', and this term has been adopted by right-wing politicians such as Sir Keith Holyoake, Jack Marshall and Norman Kirk.