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President Nguyen Van Thieu rode through the hastily cleared streets of Saigon last week in his black Mer cedes and pulled to a halt inside the barbed-wire compound that Viet Nam's national television station shares with the U.S. Armed Forces network stu dios. Inside, he settled himself behind a green-cloth-covered table, permitted a makeup man to powder his high forehead, but refused to straighten his loosely knotted tie. "It will look more nat ural," he said. Then the cameras rolled and the President of South Viet Nam delivered his first major policy address...
...been urging over the past two months. The program, beamed to 170,000 TV sets within viewing range of 76% of the country's population, would, if carried out, go far toward solv ing the worst of South Viet Narn's problems. Among President Thieu's major concerns...
...anticorruption drive is Premier Nguyen Van Loc, a Saigon lawyer with no administrative experience, no political base of his own-and a Cabinet under him teeming with powerful generals. So weak is Loc's position that the truculent National Assembly, unable to muster enough votes to attack Thieu directly, was narrowly persuaded last week to drop a no-confidence vote against Loc. Still, on Loc's orders, Vietnamese courts have tried 32 South Viet namese servicemen and eight civilians on charges of embezzlement of government funds, bribery and associated crimes. All have drawn stiff sentences; three officers, found...
...responsible government genuinely interested in the welfare of its people. That image has never been more vital than in the days since the Communists' destructive Tet offensive. Last week, responding to strong urgings from the U.S. and from within its own ranks, the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu finally showed some signs of doing something about its endemic, pervasive wrongdoers. It replaced six of South Viet Nam's 44 province chiefs on grounds of corruption and incompetence...
...Thieu's action marked the first time since the days of Diem that a Vietnamese chief of state had directly appointed province chiefs. Previously, that had been the prerogative of the commanders of the country's four military corps, who often ran their regions like warlords. By coincidence, Thieu had ousted two of the commanders only last month. 10% O.K. Thieu was merely taking a first step. Like their predecessors, his six new men are all lieutenant colonels or colonels, and as military men may still find it difficult to challenge the generals who are corps commanders. Thieu...