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...level lower than in previous years, but no less fatal for those who are killed, no less uprooting for those who are made homeless. At the same time that the war continues, apparently, the political techniques which helped turn many Americans against the Saigon government of Nguyen Van Thieu continue as well...
Estimates of the number of political prisoners in Thieu's jails vary widely. The Saigon government announced in July that it held 4321 political prisoners, a figure Newsweek magazine called "unconvincing." A few days later, a group of South Vietnamese students and clerics issued a statement claiming that the government held about 202,000 political prisoners...
Amnesty International, a widely respected humanitarian group based in London, estimates that Thieu holds about 100,000 civilians, a figure that presumably includes some criminals as well as political prisoners...
...might be expected under such laws, political imprisonment is not reserved for supporters of the National Liberation Front. The best known political prisoners are not communists, but neutralists, pacifists, or other opponents of Thieu. According to some observers, in fact, it's precisely non-communist and even non-political people that the Saigon government is most interested in imprisoning. They're the ones that might help to bridge the gap between the Provisional Revolutionary Government and its opponents, or present an alternative to Thieu besides the NLF to upper-class Vietnamese, other Vietnamese anti-communists, and especially the United States...
...took a Silber-appointed committee only 12 days to produce a code that would make Chiang Kai-Shek or Nguyen Van Thieu green with envy. Silber appointed the drafting committee. Silber will appoint the hearing examiner. Silber will appoint the committee which, in turn, has power to appoint the judicial committees, or panels of jurors. Of course, defendants will be entitled to appeal the jury's decision. The appeal will be heard by "the president of the University or a party or review body designated by him." On April 25, as B.U. classes were ending, the students...