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...United States government established the dictatorial Nguyen Van Thieu regime in 1965 and since then has kept it breathing, first with 550,000 U.S. ground troops bolstered with a massive onslaught from the air, later, by subsidizing Thieu's million-man army and police apparatus...
...Thieu did not hold 200,000 or more political prisoners in his jails, he could not maintain the political no-man's land he uses to make reconciliation of differing Vietnamese impossible," David Truong told last night's meeting...
Truong's father, Truong Dinh Dzu, finished second to Thieu in South Vietnam's last multi-candidate election--in the fall of 1967--and spent the next few years in prison...
...most interesting items in the AID budget for the next fiscal year is the funding of a sophisticated computer-data system for Thieu's police. By the agency's own estimates, the computer system will have amassed data on 11.5 million South Vietnamese citizens by 1975. Initiated two years ago, the electronic setup is being developed by Computer Sciences Corp. of Los Angeles. Political and personal data on two-thirds of all adult South Vietnamese have already been fed into the system. According to congressional auditors, police training and computers are being financed through a variety of innocent...
Cruel Police. That may not be enough for Congress, however. Senators Kennedy and James Abourezk have denounced the U.S. support of Thieu's police, and Senator Alan Cranston told TIME: "AID is continuing to bolster a cruel and repressive police apparatus in South Viet Nam. A vast surveillance system is in effect, aided by U.S. communications equipment and personnel. Police torture and inhuman jail conditions, including the notorious tiger cages, await those who criticize the government's policies. That the American taxpayer should subsidize torture is an outrage...