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...permitted to filter down to the masses, and certain segments are focusing on Thieu's sabotage of the Paris talks. Thieu's response has been to selectively beat up demonstrators. No right-wingers have been injured to date, although two left-liberal priests were severely beaten last week. Thoi Bao Ga, a Cambridge-based Vietnamese monthly, argues that liberalization by the regime will lead necessarily to a settlement at the talks, followed by Thieu's ouster. If the Americans don't get to him first...
Miffed, South Viet Nam's spokesman Bui Bao True declared, "Mr. Sartre and Miss de Beauvoir have always had a reputation of demanding the legitimization of illegal acts, crimes and bad actions...
...Vietnam, as in many other countries, this schism helped maintain dominance by foreigners. Bao Dai, the first head of state of Vietnam to be recognized by the western powers, was at heart a Frenchman. He spent most of his time at his villa in France, and when in Vietnam he lived in regal European style. Bao Dai, the Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem, and the other would-be westerners who have ruled South Vietnam in succeeding years are barely thought of as Vietnamese. So it is hardly surprising that they would join forces with foreign armies against their own people...
Thumbing through 59 TIME cover stories is another way to review the twists, shocks, hopes and frustrations of the strangest war in U.S. history. Through the 1950s, it was still a foreign conflict, and the cover subjects included Emperor Bao Dai, Ho Chi Minh (top two) and Ngo Dinh Diem. When a military coup felled Diem in 1963, Murray Gart, now chief of correspondents, watched some of the action from a Saigon rooftop. There was only one central cable office in Saigon then, and to avoid delay and censorship, Gart flew to Bangkok to file material for a cover story...
Over the years, the tragedy of Viet Nam has thrust onstage a variety of characters who strutted and fretted their hour and then virtually disappeared from sight. Among them: Bao Dai, the last Emperor of Viet Nam, forced to abdicate after World War II, resurrected by the French in 1947 as puppet Emperor of Viet Nam, went into exile in 1954 to a more lotophagous life on the French Riviera. Now 59, his majesty lives in France's Midi, still enjoys a playboy's existence and occasionally issues political pronouncements that are widely ignored...