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...second election campaign began just after the new administration of President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu had won validation of the first. By a vote of 58 to 43, the Provisional Legislative Assembly cleared Thieu's last legal barrier to power. One result of the validation was new trouble in the streets of Saigon, where several elements continued to contest the right of Thieu's administration to rule. Students demonstrated briefly but were quickly contained by police. Thich Tri Quang, South Viet Nam's most troublesome monk, declared a hunger strike beneath his tree opposite Independence Palace...
...Barrier Post. Con Thien is also important because it is likely to be one of the posts along the barrier that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said would be constructed south of the DMZ. Already it is the western terminus of a 600-yd.-wide swath that was bulldozed for eleven miles through the scrub brush and elephant grass earlier in the year to serve as a free-fire zone in which anything that moves is shot at. Though details of the new barrier remain secret, it is assumed that it will be an extension of the present line over...
...aimed at "the realization of one's potential." He asks students in these "encounter groups" to act out their inner feelings rather than talk about them. A man who feels psychically "up tight" may be put inside a circle of classmates and asked to break through this human barrier. The University of California's George I. Brown, an associate professor of education, employs charades in his creativity workshops: he gets a woman to go through the motions of taking her girdle off, a man to pretend to release a balloon...
Moreover, the U.S. has plans afoot to make things even more difficult for Hanoi. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's plan to lay an electronic barrier across the demilitarized zone aims at reducing Hanoi's ability to slip men and supplies into the South. The barrier is expected to run into Laos as well, which will vastly increase Hanoi's difficulties, since many infiltration routes make an end run around the North-South border and snake through Laos...
Childish Stories. At the risk of erecting a credibility wall between himself and the public by leaving almost every question unanswered, McNamara forbade all discussion of the barrier by military men to stop any seepage of information valuable to the enemy. Although he promised to keep Congress up to date, American taxpayers may never know the cost ($1 billion over two years, according to one estimate) or the effectiveness of McNamara's stratagem...