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...increase. The U.S. embassy staff of 270 may be trimmed slightly for budgetary reasons as the U.S. presence in Viet Nam diminishes. But the 900 Americans administering U.S. economic-aid and social-welfare projects are likely to need more help as the U.S. provides South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu with the stepped-up material aid he requested at a press conference earlier this month...
...teenagers. What is more, many of the Northerners are being sent to the southernmost Mekong Delta, a sector that is unfamiliar to them but is rapidly becoming one of the most crucial areas of the war. To bolster South Viet Nam's defenses there, President Nguyen Van Thieu last week replaced two top military commanders in the Delta. The North, determined to discredit President Nixon's Vietnamization plan, has ordered two full regiments and possibly parts of three others into the area to confront Saigon's forces. The result has indeed posed a problem for Vietnamization...
...Essays. With the financial help of political friends, including General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, Publisher Chung awarded modest cash prizes to runners-up and ran the top 75 essays in his paper. Neither his pals nor his prose won him much favor with the regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Two weeks ago, on a charge of "promoting neutralism," Thieu's censors closed down the Voice of the People indefinitely. That action in itself is an eloquent essay on the war in Viet...
Valuable Vitamins. Legislators, for their part, accuse Thieu not only of seeking dictatorial powers but also of using underhanded methods to increase his influence. His chief legislative liaison, a millionaire pharmacy owner named Nguyen Cao Thang, is famous for dispensing "Tran Hung Dao vitamins," named after the ancient general pictured on South Viet Nam's 500-piastre notes (worth $1.50 on the free market). To be sure, all too few legislators reject the prescription...
Both in his legislative program and in his frequent visits to the countryside, Thieu is plainly striving to extend the sway of his government beyond Saigon. Many legislators, content to serve and deal in the capital without building a political base in the countryside, are unsympathetic to his efforts and are often outright obstructive. It remains to be seen for how long Thieu, in the midst of his struggles to stabilize the economy and strengthen the army, will put up with such tactics before taking more severe steps to curb the powers of the kindergarten...