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...prison, and rest assured that after seven years of saying no the communists will stubbornly retain the POWs. Or, we can accept (yes, with honor) the other side's two well-announced conditions--stop U.S. military involvement in North and South Vietnam and cut off all aid to Thieu's regime. If those two conditions are met, the North Vietnamese have promised to release all the POWs. While both sides remain immobile in the Paris negotiations, President Nixon helps nothing by chasing an elusive shadow of blood-stained honor...
Given a six-month mandate by the National Assembly to rule by decree, Thieu announced in August that every newspaper would have to put up a $47,000 "deposit" in order to publish. From this fund would be deducted fines of up to $12,500 per infraction for "undermining national security," an ill-defined offense that has in the past included such sins as reprinting military reports from the foreign press-even when those reports have been cleared by Vietnamese censors. Trial is before a military court, which can also impose jail sentences with no appeal. Decree 007 presented...
Small Solace. When only a handful of publishers met Thieu's original deadline for complying with the deposit demand, he relented slightly; the time limit was extended two weeks and the interest rate on the enforced deposits raised from 1.5% to 12%. That was small solace to the publishers, most of whom have had to borrow the money from local banks at 24% or more. The 28-member press council that represents the nation's newsmen and publishers resigned en masse, protesting "the heaviest penalties ever heard of in the press history of South Viet...
...surviving dailies-17 Vietnamese, eleven Chinese and one English -have no illusions about mounting heavy attacks on Thieu. Decree 007 also declares that if two editions of any paper are seized for alleged security violations, the publication can be shut down indefinitely, even if neither violation has been brought to trial...
...that Kissingers is one of the most attractive voices ever to bold forth in Washington." Shifting to sociology he flatly and wrongly states that America does not look at all like Weimar. In a statement so oversimplified that it is blatantly false, he writes that Kissinger sees Nguven Van Thieu as a convenient ally not because he is reasonable but merely because he is compliant." Without supporting his view, he refutes Kissingers "linkage" theory with the equivalent of a Papal Bull. And it is even less reasonable to suppose that America's steadfastness in Southeast Asia measurably affects Washington...