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...Chicago's hitting were as good as its pitching, the White Sox would be a shoo-in for the pennant. But you can't have everything, and manager Al Lopez has always put a premium on pitching, speed, and sound defense. Tho only three reliable batters on the Sox are outfielder Floyd Robinson (.301), first baseman Bill Skowron (.282, 17 homers), and infielder Pete Ward (.282, 23 homers). The White Sox won't leave too many opposing pitchers shell-shocked, but with Pizzaro, Peters, Horlen, Howard, and Wilhelm, they don't need...
...charged that the press "has reported only the vivid occurences--tho demonstrations--misrepresenting the strength of the Communist movement...
Talk & Chop. Formed three years ago, the Liberation Front has a "cabinet" composed of South Vietnamese; the "chairman" is Nguyen Huu Tho, 53, a Saigon-born, French-educated lawyer. But naturally, he is only a local coverup for North Viet Nam's Red Boss, Ho Chi Minh. The Front's "capital" is believed to be the Viet Cong's military GHQ, which is situated deep in the jungle 75 miles northwest of Saigon, conveniently close to the Cambodian frontier, and protected by a maze of fortifications plus 1,000 elite troops. From there, a disciplined apparatus extends...
Some 100 South Vietnamese newsmen and 20 foreign correspondents assembled in Saigon last week on command of Premier Nguyen Ngoc Tho. For three hours Tho castigated the performance of the very newspapers to which his government had pledged full freedom. He fumed at what he called their unconquerable tendency to print lies and "sensationalism." His criticism even extended to the character of some of the editors. One, he suggested, was an opium addict; another was playing footsie with the Communists. If the country's press did not mend its ways, concluded Tho, "the government would have to take...
...dailies (TIME, Dec. 13) had "cynically slandered the army and thus damaged the morale of the soldiers," the Ministry of Information closed all three "until further notice." The charge did not describe the newspapers' true offense-which was to criticize South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Ngoc Tho...