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...boasts of a three-star general, a Cabinet member with Washington connections, and a former ambassador to the United States. Thieu has given them over $2 million to wine, dine, and womanize potential Washington supporters of increased U.S. aid. One week after this fact was revealed in the Saigon newspaper Dai Dan Toc, Saigon's Department of Social Welfare announced that it would spend less than $10,000 to relieve the central provinces threatened with famine...
...activities of the committee are apparently not enough. In an effort to dramatize a "North Vietnamese offensive," Saigon has feigned "tactical withdrawals" from its own territory. After Congress voted to reduce the military aid request, a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee report, released on August 5, acknowledged that the U.S. Embassy assisted Saigon in falsifying the maneuvers around Tong Le Chan and Ben Cat in order to sabotage the talks between Saigon and the PRG in Paris...
...Camara, a frequent critic of Brazil's military government. Morris was held on vague -and false-charges of "subversive activities" for the Central Intelligence Agency. Despite a formal, forceful protest from U.S. Ambassador John Crinimins, he was still in prison late last week. Halfway round the world in Saigon, American newsmen found themselves involved in another variety of official violence...
...kicked by several policemen; he was hospitalized with painful bruises about his spleen. CBS protested directly to President Thieu, noting that the attack did violence to the already fragile image of democracy hi his country. To Hillenbrand, the ugly episode was a telling sign of political jitters hi Saigon. As always, he says, "when the going gets tough for the government, the secret police begin beating on the journalists...
...technical military personnel and...advisers...to all paramilitary organizations and the police force." While the presence of the civilian technical personel doesn't specifically violate Article Five, their presence certainly violates the spirit of the law, as does the presence of the C.I.A. in Vietnam, which reputedly helps the Saigon police force collect information on political dissenters...