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...testified at the October 7 "Winter Soldier" hearings in Boston, "civilian casualties for the first six months of 1971 are equal to any six month period prior to 1968." In addition, the disclosure of government sponsored research on the developmental prospects for Vietnam and Nixon's adamant support for Thieu in the recent "elections" strongly indicate that Nixon still hopes to create a stable pro-American regime in South Vietnam similar to the South Korean settlement...
...students and disabled veterans staged several large demonstrations, burned Thieu posters, and hurled Molotov cocktails at the police. At one point, more than a thousand students on the old city side of the Perfume River struggled to link up with 200 others on the Hue University side. Combat police used tear gas and repeated bursts from their M-16s to break up the demonstration...
Little Choice. Winding up his campaign, Thieu last week appeared on television to review his accomplishments. Said Thieu: "We have not only thwarted a Communist military victory, but we have also obtained many encouraging results in the building of democracy and improvement of society." Thieu's platform, in short, was his own version of peace and prosperity-a version that South Viet Nam's voters, whether so inclined or not, had little choice but to endorse...
...seriocomic seizure game was stepped up during President Nguyen Van Thieu's one-man run for reelection. Before the campaign started in late August, newspaper seizures for the year totaled 291. Since then, up to the time the polls closed last week, there were nearly 200 more, and virtually all victims were anti-Thieu papers. The wonder is that the regime bothers. Because of government corruption and inefficiency, the seizures seldom suppress a paper entirely, and because the Vietnamese press has a longstanding reputation for venality, relatively few people pay much attention to its attacks on Thieu...
Resort to Radio. A new press law passed last year proclaims that "censorship is prohibited," but it also provides that "the exercise of press freedom shall not be harmful to personal honor, national security or traditional morality." That large loophole leaves Thieu free to crack down on his critics. Chief sufferer has been Tin Sang (Morning News), a reputable opposition daily owned by a tough Catholic politician. Ngo Cong Duc (TIME, Sept. 6). The paper has been seized 166 times so far this year, and Duc's home, office and printing plant have been vandalized or fire-bombed five...