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Sentenced were Father Truong BaCan, historian and essayist, and Father Chan Tin, editor of the monthly Doi Dien, now closed by the government. The two were convicted after the magazine published a three-part series by Father Can on the history of the Communist revolution in North Vietnam...
...editor of a Northern Catholic newspaper, Xay Dung, said in an editorial that the Church 'needs a generation of men like Can," praising his "dissent and idealism." Even Father Hoang Quynh, a leading figure among Northern Catholic refugees, who has no use for the left-leaning Doi Dien, has criticized the government move as being connected with the coming Presidential election...
...major themes of Doi Dien's articles in the past year (confiscated off the newsstand for eight straight months), have been not only an end to the war, but also opposition to American dominance of South Vietnam. It has appealed for reconciliation between Communist and non-Communist Vietnamese...
...Amid speculation that the Allied invasion of Laos may be turning into a second Dien Bien Phu, Nixon administration spokesmen announced yesterday that American combat troops will be sent into Laos should it prove necessary to protect "search-and-rescue teams" trying to save downed American airmen...
...ARVN advance was almost glacial -slowed by twisting terrain, mud that sucked at tank treads, and fears of rushing headlong into what Vice Premier Nguyen Cao Ky described last week as "our Dien Bien Phu." Instead of a lightning strike, the ARVN invasion commander, Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam, employed a cautious leapfrogging technique designed to keep his troops within range of friendly artillery...