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...been a great year for international revolution. The two countries whose apparent victories lit up last May Day have found their victories elusive. In Vietnam, the cease-fire won by almost three decades of struggle proved to be little more than a scrap of paper, as the dictatorship of Nguyen Van Thieu continued to hold tens of thousands of political prisoners and to attack liberated territories. And Chile's military, frightened by Popular Unity's movement toward true socialization of wealth and its rights--within the framework of traditional law and with full respect for traditional civil liberties--violently overthrew...
...Martin says that he fears that Congress will not continue to give enough money to South Vietnam. He is afraid that an "economic takeoff" by the Saigon government towards independence from U.S. aid will be impeded by a "Hanoi-inspired propaganda campaign" which aims at turning Congress against the Nguyen Van Thieu government...
Devaluation and the resulting imported inflation can be understood as a delayed tax on the American people to support Nguyen van Thieu...
Though some top U.S. officials in Saigon still describe South Viet Nam as a "free society," South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu in the past year has gathered most of the reins of power into his hands. He so manipulated last August's Senate elections that a pro-Thieu majority was chosen. This gave him control of both the Senate and the National Assembly, and so Thieu had no trouble changing the constitution to eliminate its two-term limit, enabling him to run in October 1975 for a third five-year term. His intimidation of political opponents...
STREET HIERARCHIES formed and a class of wild, homeless kids called Cao Bois grew up who beat and rolled American soldiers. Thus Do street had the largest collection of bars and bordellos in Vietnam--less than a half mile from Nguyen Van Thieu's home. Monks burned themselves in the streets; soldiers bought bar girls Saigon Tea for two bucks a shot and got blown up by bicycles laden with explosives; NLF agents lived next door to petty government officials. Hundreds of crippled war veterans angrily confronted the state with demands for housing and health care, descending on the presidential...