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...wake of Communist gains in the Easter offensive, South Viet Nam's National Assembly last June reluctantly granted President Nguyen Van Thieu the power to rule by decree for six months. Thieu lost no time in issuing a series of tough decrees that, among other things, increased the income tax rate, set the death penalty for certain crimes, including kidnaping and heroin dealing, subjected some religious groups to the draft, and ordered Saigon's 40 newspapers to deposit 20 million piasters ($46,-512) each as security against government fines or libel suits...
...What Thieu has done is abolish elections in Viet Nam's 10,626 hamlets. Henceforth province chiefs, all of whom are appointed by Saigon, will choose hamlet officials. The province chiefs will also appoint-without the approval of elected village councils, which has heretofore been required -the staff and administrative officers in every hamlet and village in the country. The effect of the decree is to extend Thieu's control right down to the level where most Vietnamese make their most immediate-and sometimes their only-contact with government...
...saccharine lines of Earl Robinson's song The House I Live In. ("What is America to me?/ A name, a map, the flag I see./ A certain word, democracy./ That is America to me.") But he also defended his policies, getting stony silence when he declared: "General Thieu is not worth one more drop of American blood...
Even it Steiner had put all his power to the test, his backing of HSA would have been like the Marines backing a regular regiment of Thieu's Army. On May 5, 1972, HSA was forced to mail out cancellation notices to those who had subscribed to five of its seven charter flights to Europe. HSA, due to competition from lower-than-ever youth fare rates, could simply not corner the Harvard market as it had done in the past...
Diplomatic Trajectories. George McGovern lost no time in charging that Nixon "has manipulated Mr. Kissinger and American public opinion to appear to be negotiating, when actually he has been stalling to prop up General Thieu and his corrupt military regime in Saigon." Speculation both in Washington and Saigon, however, focused on the real possibility of a cease-fire being arranged, with the U.S. agreeing to halt the bombing and mining of the North in return for P.O.W.s. But any such exchange might still be weeks away, at least. In his talks with Kissinger, Thieu resisted any cease-fire plan that...