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More Protest. Next day 5,000 Catholics were scheduled to march from the suburb of Gia Dinh to central Saigon, where they would join with other protesting groups. None of them made it. In Gia Dinh, would-be paraders awoke to discover their district surrounded by a police line. They tried to march anyway. In the melee, police smashed Father Thanh's glasses and bloodied his face. By week's end scores more had been injured. Eleven opposition legislators were beaten and one was arrested. The Viet Nam Press Club was raided by police, who rounded...
Although Buddhist immolations in 1963 roused American opinion against Ngo Dinh Diem and in 1966 forced Thieu to promise elections, until recently the Buddhists had limited their anti-Thieu protests to pathetic little marches in downtown Saigon, in which they were outnumbered 10 to 1 by police. They have now formed an organization called the Forces for National Reconciliation. The Buddhists carefully refrained from labeling the "force" a political party in order to avoid legal harassment, but they clearly intend to exert renewed political influence. Says Senator Vu Van Mau, leader of a Buddhist group in the Thieu-dominated Senate...
...Collecting salaries for phantom troops, an old stand-by that still nourishes. One battalion in Dinh Tuong province carries 360 men on the pay book, but psychological-warfare investigators could count only 68 actual soldiers. Phantom troops show up only on pay day, turning over all or part of their pay to the commander before heading back to safe civilian jobs...
...cover-up begins. On June 20, Dean cleans out Hunt's safe, discovering files on the Pentagon papers case and a forged diplomatic cable that implicates the Kennedy Administration in the assassination in 1963 of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Dean later testifies that Nixon's chief domestic adviser John Ehrlichman subsequently tells him to "deep six" a briefcase full of surveillance equipment and other evidence...
...hired to pose as homosexuals supporting McGovern at the Democratic National Convention, and engineered mail campaigns in favor of Nixon's policies. He allegedly ordered his close friend E. Howard Hunt to fabricate a State Department telegram implicating President Kennedy in the assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. At one point, according to Senate Watergate testimony, he urged that Washington's Brookings Institution be fire-bombed as a diversionary tactic in a raid to seize some politically damaging documents. "Chuck could never play anything straight," says one of his former underlings. "Everything had to be contrived...