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...scheduled speaker was Anand Panyarachun, Royal Thai Ambassador to Canada. And it is worth noting that Pasztor stuck to his statements that the South Vietnamese Ambassador would appear until Caploe told him of his conversations with the Embassy, and only then announced that the actual speaker would be Nguyen Hean, a minor official in the Embassy. We leave it to the reader to determine whom to believe in this exchange...
...village by U.S. planes because he was playing in a distant field; an old woman sent him to Saigon, and for three years he shined shoes and slept on the streets until he moved to Hughes' "Hope 5" hostel. After his father was killed by the Viet Cong, Nguyen Van Thanh. 12, ran away from his village and met a bar girl who brought him to Saigon; there he ran away again and moved to the streets. When Son ("Mountain") was eight, his mother left him in an orphanage and disappeared to the U.S. with his father. He disliked...
...second presidential election in South Viet Nam's history is still five months off, but the selling of the candidates is already well under way. In the old imperial capital of Hue last week, President Nguyen Van Thieu stood at smiling attention in a packed reviewing stand as he presided over a parade celebrating South Viet Nam's "glorious victory" in Laos. In Saigon, meanwhile, his Vice President and chief rival, Nguyen Cao Ky, was putting on a show of his own. "You ask why we did not have a victory parade after our successful campaign in Cambodia...
...State William Rogers has ordered U.S. personnel in Saigon to observe "strict neutrality" during the campaigning. But in fact, the U.S. is backing Thieu. And even if the U.S. could adopt a convincing hands-off posture, such a situation would only favor the status quo -which, again, is Nguyen Van Thieu...
Several Foreign Relations Committee members took angry exception to the group's testimony and the hearing reached high pitch when Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) accused Craven and Gregory of having discussed with Nguyen Thi Binh, Chief NLF representative at the Paris negotiations, the possibility of "a kidnapping of public officials of the U.S." as part of next week's demonstrations...