Word: chau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME includes my name among U.S. sources who supposedly have stated that Tran Ngoc Chau reported meetings with his Communist brother "not only to other Vietnamese officials but also to the CIA" [March 9]. If you had checked with me first, I would have told you truthfully that I had no knowledge of Chau's meetings with his brother or of what he did about telling anyone of such meetings...
...direct quote attributed to me that Chau is "a very loyal, patriotic Vietnamese" is correct. It was my privilege to have known Chau when he was a province chief in Kien Hoa, later as the director of Revolutionary Development cadre training at Vung Tau, and then as an elected Deputy in the lower house of Viet Nam's National Assembly. He impressed me with the firmness with which he believed and followed the tenets of Confucian ethics in his public life, tenets that provide ideal guidance for a public servant in any human society...
Even before the verdict was announced, Chau was arguing his case in the supposed sanctuary of the National Assembly, which was in recess. For 80 hours, he held forth in the old Opera House, entertaining newsmen with Vietnamese beer, fruit and copies of his biography, and maintaining a steady anti-Thieu patter. "Did you hear?" Chau jeered at one point. "President Nixon has sent a dossier to the Senate asking for the lifting of Senator [George] McGovern's parliamentary immunity because he was in contact with the Communists in Paris." What did Chau think of his sentence? Thieu...
...final dramatic gesture, Chau pinned on the green and gold National Order medal he had won for his service as a former Mekong Delta province chief. The decoration, South Viet Nam's highest, bears the inscription: "The nation is grateful to you." Wearers of the medal are supposed to be saluted by soldiers and police, and to be treated with particular courtesy. But when the cops burst in, they unceremoniously ripped his medal off, beat him to the floor, handcuffed him. dragged him down a flight of stairs by his feet, bumping his head on each step, and tossed...
Less Than Deft. The chief effect of the Chau fiasco was to show that Thieu is less than deft in handling opposition. In recent years, he has turned relatively ineffectual opponents like Truong Dinh Dzu, the runner-up in the 1967 presidential election, and Thich Thien Minh, a leading Buddhist, into near martyrs by arresting and imprisoning them. Now, as a U.S. official in Saigon notes, "he has changed Chau overnight from a political nonentity into an international figure." When Chau gets a new trial to appeal his conviction, probably this week, he can be expected to make the most...