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...other gang of 200 has extorted an estimated $50,000 during the past six months. Its leader is Nguyen Ro, 33, a one-legged former master sergeant, who earned 20 medals as a soldier. "All my life has been devoted to fighting the enemy," he says. "When I could fight, the government provided me with a house. But when I was disabled, without any way to make a living, I was chased...
...Controversy. The delegates haggled over which Cambodia to recognize, the Lon Nol regime in Phnom-Penh or Prince Sihanouk's outfit in Peking; they decided to seat neither. Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign minister of the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government, was welcomed as an observer after a debate that Kaunda dismissed as merely "a bit of controversy." The "nonaligned" posture of the conference was bent even further when Zambian police arrested 16 Western reporters and deported three of them. The men were detained, explained the Zambian government, because "the monopoly press of the West" was seeking...
Although the voting swung more on ethnic and regional loyalties than on the issues, the Buddhist showing dented the prestige of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Thieu's main support rests on South Viet Nam's 2,000,000 Catholics, who are vastly outnumbered by the country's 15 million Buddhists and their followers. However, the outcome did support Thieu's claim that his government had conducted honest elections. The voting was largely peaceful, as 65% of the 6,600,000 eligible voters trooped to the polls. The candidates on the two top tickets, plus the members...
...have never seen him refuse anything." SOUTH VIET NAM: From the moment he arrived at the presidential palace in Saigon until the moment of his departure, Agnew moved about under total security and in almost total public silence. Perhaps by design both Agnew and President Nguyen Van Thieu had chosen to speak out before his arrival. En route to Saigon, Agnew explicitly ruled out as a topic of conversation the timetable for American withdrawal from Viet Nam beyond that already announced by Nixon. Thieu made his opposite views known in an interview with TIME. "We need to know-not publicly...
...possibility that last-minute Communist attacks would disrupt the balloting, but the campaigning took place in an atmosphere of relative normality. The military front remained quiescent. U.S. battle deaths dropped to 52 for the past week, the lowest toll in 4½ years. The cities were also peaceful. President Nguyen Van Thieu has defused chronic student protest by releasing jailed students. He also succeeded in mollifying the raucous disabled war veterans, who roll to their riots in wheelchairs, by granting them more liberal benefits...