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...labor representation. One deceptively simple solution is a "free," secret-ballot election. Elections are certainly desirable, but merely calling for them now is not enough. This proposal fails to take into account the context in which any elections would now take place. In widely different cases, General Nguyen van Thieu and Mayor Richard Daley have shown that elections are not the be-all and end-all they are sometimes thought to be, even where formal safeguards for democracy exist. Considering the long history of bought loyalties, misrepresentation, well-documented corruption and open violence in the California labor struggle, truly free...
Hillenbrand, who was not badly hurt, was far more fortunate than CBS Newsman Haney Howell who, while covering the same demonstration an hour later, was knocked to the ground and kicked by several policemen; he was hospitalized with painful bruises about his spleen. CBS protested directly to President Thieu, noting that the attack did violence to the already fragile image of democracy hi his country. To Hillenbrand, the ugly episode was a telling sign of political jitters hi Saigon. As always, he says, "when the going gets tough for the government, the secret police begin beating on the journalists...
There are many more specific violations to the Paris peace agreement. These are just a few. What it all adds up to is continued support for President Thieu's regime, a regime which now allows only one political party, a regime that has the power by law to confiscate any newspaper anytime. It was President Thieu who would not allow the general elections to be held, would not allow the communists access to the press, permission to run candidates or the freedom to hold open rallies in support of those candidates--all provided for in the Paris accord...
...torture that is commonplace in the Saigon government's political prisons. Shipler laid great stress on the fact that many of those tortured are not communists, and in general the moral of the series appeared to be that the United States should suggest to General Thieu that he institute some prison reforms and some civil liberties, and maybe consider cutting off aid if he--out of sheer perverseness, possibly--refused...
...continuity of oppressiveness among all the governments fighting the National Liberation Front hardly entered into Shipler's articles, though it certainly seems to suggest that the oppressiveness has roots deeper than General Thieu's personal idiosyncracies--roots in popular support for the NLF, for example. Like Ford's policy pronouncements, and unlike the articles of the Times's other Vietnam reporter, James M. Markham, Shipler's articles were based on an unconsidered assumption that the NLF couldn't possibly speak for the people of South Vietnam, and merits suppression by any means necessary. Working from this assumption, Shipler spends...