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...there are abuses in the prisons, he said, they are not widespread and not systematic. No more than a handful of the prisoners are being held solely for their opposition to the Thieu government, Martin concluded after his staff conducted an investigation "using all the means at their disposal to get at the truth...
Since the cease-fire agreement last year, however, many reliable American journalists and researchers have disputed Martin's conclusion that Thieu's government does not hold and torture political prisoners. Documentary films, articles, and reports of instruments of torture being manufactured by American companies and shipped to Vietnam all cast doubts on the validity of Martin's investigation. In fact, the evidence strongly suggests that "all the means" at the disposal of Martin's staff were substantially limited by a self-imposed need for unequivocal support of and reliance upon the statements of Thieu's corrupt government...
...years of heavy economic aid is all that South Vietnam needs because the South Vietnamese are "ingenious, hard-working people and I'm convinced that the situation for an economic takeoff on the Korean-Taiwan economic model in a very shortened time is here," Martin claims. Thieu's government has taken "all the right measures, simply tightening their belts and going on" with the relatively small amount of aid supplied this year...
Substitute a few words here and there and Martin sounds dangerously like the mongers who stampeded us into the war in the early sixties. Coloring his statements with anti-communist rhetoric, he states emphatically that "it's not my business to support Thieu or anything else. It's my business to support the interests of the United States...
American troops are no longer officially engaged in Vietnam, and for the time being at least, American bombers are not providing support for South Vietnamese troops. Nonetheless, America's commitment to Thieu and South Vietnam is unflagging. Thousands of civilians employed by the U.S. government and American corporations have moved in to unofficially perform the same military duties which our men in uniform did two years ago. The U.S. does everything for the South Vietnamese army except shoot their rifles and fire their artillery. The level of spending on military aid is still well above $1 billion annually and economic...