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...house owned by Vo Van Mau, a deputy in the National Assembly, who is loyal to Thieu's regime. When police searched another of Mau's properties, they found vials that bore traces of heroin-about which Mau claimed to know nothing. A week later, Pham Chi Thien, another pro-administration deputy, was caught red-handed smuggling 8.78 lbs. of heroin from Laos, and now awaits trial. Thien's comely, 20-year-old travelmate slipped by airport police, but was arrested a few days later as she entered one of Saigon's main heroin "drops...
...carried an intriguing address book. Among the names (Thien's included) and lists of transactions were initials police believe belong to another deputy who had been engaged in smuggling heroin. Former General Huynh Van Cao, who headed the pro-government Senate slate in last fall's elections, charged that at least two senators were also involved in heroin traffic and then promptly retracted his statement...
...that the government of South Vietnam has delayed, from February to March or even later, invitations to petroleum companies to bid on offshore oil concessions. These concessions are located in the Gulf of Thailand and the south-east offshore region adjacent to the penal colony of Con Son. The Thien-Ky government has not yet determined if it will offer all 18 offshore leases in a block or whether it will stretch out the leasing over a period of months to the 21 contending companies, which are mostly American...
That the withdrawal of all American forces from Indochina depends on revolutionary changes within this country should be obvious from the announcement that the Thien-Ky government is planning to award 17 off-shore drilling leases to international petroleum companies. Bidding was supposed to have taken place in Saigon in February. It was postponed 60 days because Gulf and Mobil ostensibly requested further clarification concerning the off shore leases...
...Rejects demands to oust President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem, but makes no mention of keeping Communists out of the government that would be created to supervise elections. Previously, Washington has said that all "peaceful" political elements can participate; that, of course, could be interpreted to exclude any Communists who didn't agree to a ceasefire...