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Frederick D. Weil '73, Lampoon Ibis, led the crowd in the singing of a Dylanesque arrangement of "Nguyen Thieu's Blues," sung to a note of social protest...
FREEDOM SQUARE--In a nostalgic return to the campus activism of the late sixties, the Harvard Lampoon, a coalition group of middling to liberal humorists, led a pre-victory demonstration yesterday on behalf of Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam...
...dinner interview with foreign correspondents, Thieu confidently discounted Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's threats of a coup d'etat against his government. Although Ky himself was now silent, he did dispatch an aide to Washington to urge that the Nixon Administration cut off economic and military aid to force postponement of the one-man presidential race. U.S. diplomats in Saigon settled into a quiet cynicism over the no-contest race...
...Saigon police chief confirmed what many had already suspected: most of the mob outside the church had been government militiamen. In a crude attempt to justify the attack, he said that McGovern had been unwittingly meeting with "Viet Cong agents." The Senator's demand for an apology from Thieu went coldly unheeded...
...Distrust. The violence quickly escalated. The following night, the popular Tu Do nightclub was blown up with a 15-lb. plastique charge, killing 15 and wounding 57. Though the attack appeared to be the work of Viet Cong terrorists, it was a measure of the distrust in which Thieu is now held that some observers thought that the President might even have engineered that. Their reasoning: any terrorist attack would be blamed on the Viet Cong, thereby strengthening Thieu's anti-Communist stand and silencing such antiwar critics as McGovern...