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...Some families of prisoners and men missing in action (M.I. A.) began arguing for the league to take a more activist role. A handful of members picketed the White House. Campaign-style buttons appeared on lapels-P.O.W.-M.I.A.S NUMBER ONE, NOT THIEU-a reflection of concern that the Administration is using the issue of the prisoners' release to win more time for Nguyen Van Thieu's Saigon government. A splinter group, P.O.W.-M.I.A. Families for Immediate Release, offered anti-Administration position papers, and urged the league to shift from a strictly humanitarian to a frankly political stance...
...down over Laos in April 1966: "We've been told for so long not to say anything because it would aid Hanoi. Well, being quiet and leaving everything up to the President has not done anything. The President is turning the fate of our men over to President Thieu. So I, for one, am going to start speaking...
...critics and please its supporters by allowing them a token role in policy formation. Some of these reports are undoubtedly bureaucratic waste destined to line file cabinets. The Columbia study in particular, though, may be used to help gain Congressional funds for a multilateral agency to prop up a Thieu-ish regime. Like the Smithies and Benoit reports, it is a minor scenario for the tragicomedy of Vietnamization...
Bombs are still falling, people are still dying, but already nobody cares. Visitors to Vietnam this summer repot that Thieu seems to have the country under control. When American troops and even planes are no longer needed, when only American money is required to back up a corrupt and unpopular government, when no American blood is demanded to dominate a small, oppressed nation--when the American war has ended and only American repression remains, who will remember...
...Conscience. The vote had no practical effect, but nonetheless revealed a considerable depth of political feeling. Said Senate First Vice President Huynh Van Cao, a retired general and friend of Thieu's: "President Nixon can support President Thieu, but President Nixon cannot force the Vietnamese people to support President Thieu." Added Senator Nguyen Van Chuc: "Thieu can claim he has 60 or 70 or even 97 percent of the votes of confidence, but the question is: who will believe these claims? There is a chance President Nixon alone will believe in them...