MINH SURRENDERS TO NLF

Harvard Vietnam experts last night expressed relief that the "inevitable" fall of the Saigon government will probably come about with little bloodshed and called the surrender beneficial to the people of South Vietnam.

"It was inevitable." Alexander B. Woodside, associate professor of History and an expert on Vietnam, said last night.

Woodside said that "within a few years the country will be reunified. The North has been preparing for this for a long time."

He predicted that unified Vietnam will be independent of foreign influence and will do its best to avoid cligning itself with either Peking or Moscow.

John K. Fairbanks Higginson Professor of History and Chairman of the Council on Fast Astan Students. Said that the Vietnamese people have got a lot to do to remake their country.

Fairbank said that the communists will eventually dominate the new government and that the end of the war is a "positive force for the people of Vietnam."

Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor characterized the North Vietnamese government as a "tough organized communist state," and said that the new government will "also be an authoritarian regularized state."

Reischauer said he thinks the new regime will be more repressive than the old, but said he expected that it will be better able to feed the people and bring order to the country.

He said the United States should open to friendly overtures from Hanoi and added that "in a few years, we might enter into a reasonably good relationship with the Vietnamese."

"It was inevitable from the very beginning." Stanley H. Hoffmann professor of Government and an expert on U.S. foreign policy, said last night. "I'm overwhelmed with sadness that it took so long for people to realize that we should never gotten involved."

Hoffmann said he sees "no intelligent opinions being offered" to the kind of policy that brought about Vietnam. "I am very sad and no reassured at all about the course of American foreign policy in the future," he said.

Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government and former member of the Nixon Administration said. "It would be hard to say something intelligent about the situation in Vietnam since I've never been there."

Moynihan added that he "did wish that some of the people who started the war had been there" at some time or another.

But Moynihan said he felt that the real problem the American people face is the existence of "two nations in this country. We are divided," he said," and we should direct our energies at healing the rifts within our own country."

Dwight N. Perkins, professor of Government and an expert on East Asian affairs, said last night that he is "relieved that the war is over" and said he expects that the U.S. will direct itself to settling the refugee problem in the coming months.

He said he can not predict what will happen next in Vietnam, but added that at least the surrender will "end the possibility of direct fighting.