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...convictions put President Thieu, a Catholic, in almost direct confrontation with what is considered his most stable power base, the Catholics. Already significant segments of the Catholic church have come to the defense of the two priests, including those considered staunch anti-Communists...
SAIGON (DNSI)-The recent sentencing of two Vietnamese Catholic priests to nine months in prison on charges of "dissemination of ideas considered favorable to the Communists" many become a major embarrassment for the Thieu government...
...cited the opposition that the sentences have stirred among Catholic circles as the reason for Thieu's concern...
...decision to sentence the two priests comes on the heels of a government defeat in attempting to issue a decree designed to "muzzle" the press during the coming election. Thieu was forced to withdraw the decree after an outraged press reaction...
...highly touted "Hamlet Evaluation System" that Newcount has reached its zenith. In late 1969, HES reported that 92.6% of the countryside was under government control. Amid general ridicule, the figure was "revised" to 87.9%. Last week President Thieu announced that 99.8% of the population and 99.4% of the hamlets and villages were controlled by the government. Yet even if the hamlets rated A (for fully government-controlled), few ranking officials would care to spend the night lest the Communists stage a lethal raid...