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President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had backed Diem's overthrow, helped defray the costs of the commemoration with a $1,000 contribution, presumably in hopes of using the incipient Diem cult to solidify non-Communist ranks within the country. He is in no danger of being overthrown as Diem was. But growing economic problems at home, along with the continuing threat of a North Vietnamese military offensive, mean Thieu needs all the help...
HANOI, North Vietnam--A united column of American and North Vietnamese troops pushed deep into South Vietnam today, encountering almost no resistance from the crumbling Thieu government. The column, commanded personally by North Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, reported that South Vietnamese troops were deserting in droves and welcoming the liberation forces...
Conditions in Thieu's prisons are controversial. Thieu's government claims the prisons are humane "re-education centers," but it generally refuses to let journalists visit them freely. Former prisoners and letters smuggled out of prisons tell of a lack of food, frequent beatings, and torture of all varieties, with the the most popular apparently applying electric shocks to men's and women's genitals, subjecting prisoners to blazing lamps, sticking pins through their fingers, forcing bottles and other objects up women's vaginas, and forcing people to swallow large quantities of clear or soapy water and then jumping...
...says police stripped her, put sandbags across her body, beat her until she vomited blood, and held her prisoner for six months without ever filing charges--to indicate that prison conditions haven't changed very much. It is not entirely clear how much torture, or how much of Thieu's police and prisons in general, is paid for by American money. It's arguable that the government responsible for them exists only by virtue of American support, and that if such support were withdrawn it would be replaced either by the PRG--whose treatment of American prisoners of war, though...
...even apart from American maintenance of Thieu's government in general, and American aid to the Saigon budget Thieu uses for prisons at his own discretion, the United States is underwriting at least some of Thieu's prison system in particular, as it has for years. Senator James Abourezk (D-S.D.) recently undertook an extensive investigation into American aid to Saigon's police and he reported to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the end of June...