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...Huong was upset when Peace Candidate Dzu was sentenced last month to five years at hard labor for advocating talks with the National Liberation Front. The Premier tried to change Thieu's mind, but he failed. Yet in less than three months in office, Huong has given the premiership-and with it, by extension, civilian government in South Viet Nam-an aura of respectability it had never attained under others. Huong's hope is that the aura will grow. As one of the Premier's associates put it last week: "We do not expect to last...
...past ten years, Couve de Murville has carried out De Gaulle's most cherished policies -those of making France seem great in the world again. Now that De Gaulle intends to direct his attention to healing France's internal ills, he has elevated to the premiership the man whose cool acumen and legendary iciness won him among the world's diplomats a wry but not undeserved nickname: "The flawless performer...
Talent Candidates. Because of his conservative party's slim margin of 13 seats in the 250-member chamber, a loss of five or six seats would probably have cost Sato his party leadership and the premiership. Now, with the loss of only two, he has taken firmer control of his party than ever. In a major defeat, Sato's chief opponents, the Socialists, lost at least eight seats. At their expense, gains were made by the small parties, notably the "clean government" Komeito Party (tour seats), which is backed by the Soka Gakkai sect of Buddhists, the Communist...
...accession is not likely to affect the government's firm public stance against any coalition with the Communists, nor make much difference to the talks that are going on in Paris. Far more important from the point of view of the U.S., which wholeheartedly endorses Huong's premiership, is that Huong is likely to replace the technicians of the outgoing Cabinet with civilian politicians like himself. If he does so, the government will be considerably strengthened in terms of popular support. It is likely to need all such support it can get in the trying days of talking...
Died. H. H. (for Hsiang-hsi) Kung, 86, Nationalist Chinese banker politician who became brother-in-law to Ge eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek when he married into the powerful Soong banking family, as Finance Minister from 1933 to 1945 introduced the boon of standardized paper currency, but during his premiership (1939-45) was helpless against the war-wrought inflation that left China sliding toward bankruptcy, after which he was eased into honorary jobs and retirement in the U.S.; of heart disease; in Manhattan...