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Though South Viet Nam's National Assembly has occupied Saigon's neo-Romanesque Opera House for more than two years, the old building has not suffered from a dearth of drama. Most recently it has been the principal site of President Nguyen Van Thieu's bareknuckle campaign to silence his opposition in the Assembly. Last week the performance reached a climax...
Forged or Forced. Thieu's ire was directed particularly at two Deputies, Hoang Ho and Tran Ngoc Chau. Both were accused of having had "contact with the Communists." Chau admitted to having been in touch with his elder brother, a North Vietnamese intelligence officer, but said that he was trying to persuade him to "renounce Communism." U.S. sources, including John Paul Vann, chief of the U.S. pacification effort in the Mekong Delta region, and retired Major General Edward G. Lansdale, a counterinsurgency expert with long service in South Viet Nam, have stated that Chau reported his meetings not only...
...subject of Vietnam, the class again shows its non-radicalism with a plurality (43 per cent) saying they would prefer a Thieu-Ky victory if they "had to choose" between it and the NLF. However, 38 per cent said that they favor an NLF victory, which shows that the class certainly is not conservative...
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CLARK: I've been disappointed by the failure to clean up very obvious corruption, although there has probably been some improvement on the province-chief level. The average province chief today is a military appointee of Thieu who can't operate openly like a Chinese warlord, exacting tribute from his followers. As for broadening the political base of Thieu's government, although it is a very Western concept, I think eventually he will do it. Should it come about at the price of constant bickering and plotting? Thieu has asked some of those Vietnamese who call...