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...hour out of Saigon, Nguyen Thai-Binh, 24, a South Vietnamese returning home from studies at the University of Washington, took command of a Pan American 747 jumbojet and ordered the pilot to fly him to Hanoi. Thai-Binh's U.S. Government scholarship had been canceled at the Thieu regime's request, possibly because of Thai-Binh's antiwar activities. The pilot, Gene Vaughn, 53, flew into Saigon anyway, and Thai-Binh sent him a second order written in blood-apparently his own. It got him nowhere; he was shot dead by a vacationing American...
...Nguyen Thi Binh, Viet Cong foreign minister, said the ceasefire called for again Thursday by U.S. negotiator Willilam J. Porter and Saigt.s Pham Dang Lam "does not aim at ending the war, but simply at legalizing the Nguyen Van Thieu administration and the American military presence, while depriving the South Vietnamese people of the legitimate right to self defense...
...divisive question, as it has been for years, and it is overlaid with a deep popular cynicism that must contaminate any President who touches it. As Nixon continues the bombing of the North and shifts troops into Thai land to make good his withdrawal claims, as Nguyen Van Thieu claims dictatorial powers (see THE WORLD), it may be that the President is already overdrawing his accounts. An agreement in Paris, of course, could dissolve the issue before November...
Despite the evidence that the military threat was subsiding, there were some decided signs of unease emanating from the Presidential Palace in Saigon. They were primarily visible in President Nguyen Van Thieu's increasing use of -and demand for-arbitrary power. During the past 2½ months, his government has ordered the arrest of thousands of "suspected Viet Cong sympathizers," including virtually the entire student body of Hué University; arrests are continuing at the rate of 14,000 per month, though U.S. and Vietnamese officials maintain that most of those detained are quickly released. Thirty-two opposition groups...
...lined up on the parade field at Bien Hoa airbase last week, as a spectators' section filled with high-ranking officers from the U.S. and South Vietnamese commands. General Creighton Abrams, newly appointed U.S. Army Chief of Staff, was there; so was Military Region III Commander Lieut. General Nguyen Van Minh, who pinned the National Order of Viet Nam, fourth class, on the chest of Brigadier General James F. Hamlet, the 3rd Brigade commander. Then, while a pickup band played slightly off key, Hamlet slowly rolled up the brigade's guidon...