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Almost every evening, smiling embassy staffers in black Mao suits whisk small groups of dinner guests up to the green-carpeted Juliana penthouse. Before ushering them into an eight-course dinner, Huang might offer them Double Happiness cigarettes from a circular gold tin and a tall, lidded cup of green jasmine tea. As a host, Huang has become known for his determination to keep conversation light and innocuous and for his eagerness to reach out to all sorts of people. But above all, he has become known for his chef, who specializes in the hot, spicy cuisine of Szechwan province...
...press law passed last year proclaims that "censorship is prohibited," but it also provides that "the exercise of press freedom shall not be harmful to personal honor, national security or traditional morality." That large loophole leaves Thieu free to crack down on his critics. Chief sufferer has been Tin Sang (Morning News), a reputable opposition daily owned by a tough Catholic politician. Ngo Cong Duc (TIME, Sept. 6). The paper has been seized 166 times so far this year, and Duc's home, office and printing plant have been vandalized or fire-bombed five times. Once the best-selling...
Except for Tin Sang and a couple of other papers. Vietnamese who care about what is really happening usually resort to foreign radio stations anyway. Many read their papers more for titillation than truth, and serialized romantic novels outweigh political polemics as circulation builders. Reporters routinely moonlight for as many as six papers of opposing political persuasions and cheerfully quote an old adage, which rhymes in Vietnamese: "A journalist is a man who tells lies to make money." Newspapers have existed in Viet Nam for more than a century, but Journalism Professor Nguyen Ngoc Phach characterizes their history...
Although Boun Oum's power has not been based on a commercial empire, it has facilitated his accumulation of substantial commercial interests, apart from his airline and the profits from buildings rented to Americans in Vientiane. These include cement and pig iron factories in Thakkek, a tin mine which accounts for perhaps one fourth of the Country's total production, saw mills in Sedone and Savannakhet, and substantial forests and agricultural land...
...Acid and Fire. Duc's difficulty is that he has been a particularly outspoken opponent of President Thieu, whom he denounces as serving "the interests of war profiteers, the privileged classes and a foreign power [the U.S.]." Soon after entering Congress in 1967, he founded an antigovernment newspaper, Tin Sang (Morning News), which soon became the most controversial journal in Saigon. He traveled to Paris and called for the withdrawal of foreign troops and the establishment of a neutral provisional government in Viet Nam. Since then, he has had nothing but trouble. Duc was labeled a Communist lackey...