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...requirement that people who want to fly charters must belong to a club, a union or some other "affinity group." All that a traveler now has to do is sign up for a trip with a travel agent at least three months before departure and plunk down a 25% deposit. Agents must recruit a minimum of 40 people for each trip; all members of the group must fly both ways together and stay away at least seven days on charters in North America and ten days elsewhere. If a traveler changes his mind before takeoff and decides to scratch...
...Last week a former high commissioner of the French Atomic Energy Commission took issue with that belief. Addressing a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, Physicist Francis Perrin argued that nature, not man, produced the first chain reaction, and that it occurred in an African uranium deposit perhaps 1.7 billion years...
Given a six-month mandate by the National Assembly to rule by decree, Thieu announced in August that every newspaper would have to put up a $47,000 "deposit" in order to publish. From this fund would be deducted fines of up to $12,500 per infraction for "undermining national security," an ill-defined offense that has in the past included such sins as reprinting military reports from the foreign press-even when those reports have been cleared by Vietnamese censors. Trial is before a military court, which can also impose jail sentences with no appeal. Decree 007 presented...
Small Solace. When only a handful of publishers met Thieu's original deadline for complying with the deposit demand, he relented slightly; the time limit was extended two weeks and the interest rate on the enforced deposits raised from 1.5% to 12%. That was small solace to the publishers, most of whom have had to borrow the money from local banks at 24% or more. The 28-member press council that represents the nation's newsmen and publishers resigned en masse, protesting "the heaviest penalties ever heard of in the press history of South Viet...
...first time I am seized," says Publisher Vo Long Trieu of the opposition Dai Dan Toe, "I will stop pub' lication. I can't afford to lose my deposit, and the government knows it." The triple threat of censorship, seizure and shutdown will force editors to be more circumspect, but most take Decree 007 philosophically. "What does it matter," asked one last week, "whether you have two or three nooses around your neck? One is enough to hang...