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...Thieu's Political Prisoners of War" [Dec. 25] omits the fact that we Americans are blamed by many South Vietnamese for the widespread imprisonment and torture of innocent people. In a private meeting General Duong Van (Big) Minh told me that "the political prisoner situation has become a scandal which is driving non-Communists into the arms of Communists." One woman who had been tortured almost to death asked me: "Why do the American people do this to us?" I was sick with shame, as all of us would be if we knew the whole story. Commendable...
Smoke. Yet as Saigon's intelligentsia anticipates a cease-fire as all but inevitable, South Vietnamese peasants were not so sure that the years of fighting would ever end. In a hamlet in Binh Duong province, a middle-aged woman sat in front of a hut that had sheltered her family until North Vietnamese soldiers dug bunkers near by and South Vietnamese airplanes bombed the enemy-and her house. "Peace? A ceasefire? Look at our house. This is peace?" she scoffed. Predicted a farmer about both sides: "They will just keep fighting and fighting, while the people stay...
More Muscle. To protect the capital, U.S. B-52s have been concentrating on a portion of Binh Duong province, which lies 25 to 50 miles north of Saigon. In addition, every night at least five C-130 gunships circle the city from 8:30 p.m. until dawn, dropping illumination flares and firing on anything that moves in certain areas along the capital's perimeter. On the ground the city is further protected by 33 watchtowers, heavy artillery and a national police force of 21,000 men. Says one U.S. analyst: "As in any big city, it is possible for small...
...With tacit U.S. approval, Saigon army officers stage coup against Diem and execute him. Junta headed by General Duong Van Minh takes over. As turmoil continues?13 governments in 19 months?Viet Cong rapidly gain strength in countryside...
Many of Thieu's opponents sense his political weakness, and rumors of a coup are circulating for the first time in a year. Who could succeed Thieu? One name often mentioned is that of General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"), who is a former chief of state. Other possibilities: former Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky; Au Truong Thanh, a former high official who was exiled to Paris in 1968 as a neutralist; Nguyen Van Huyen, president of the South Viet Nam Senate; Tran Thien Khiem, the country's Premier; and Tran Van Tuyen, an anti-Thieu member of the South...