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...these reforms come a month sooner, they might have defused the protest movement (TIME, Sept. 30), which is led by a genial, chain-smoking Catholic priest, Father Tran Huu Thanh, 59. But by last week the opposition had grown so strong that it was not about to accept cosmetic changes. Informed of the sackings, Father Thanh declared, "These are just the hors d'oeuvres...
Even more explicit was Lawyer Tran Van Tuyen, leader of the 27-man opposition bloc in the lower house, which is also dominated by Thieu favorites. "There have always been charges of corruption," said Tuyen, "but the open charges [of the priests] were just the last drop of water that makes the full glass overflow. President Thieu just has to make an answer...
...first week in the Oval Office, Ford handled U.S. foreign relations with more assurance and subtlety than many observers at home and abroad had expected. He held White House talks with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, Egypt's Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and South Viet Nam's Ambassador Tran Kim Phuong; all left-considerably reassured about the depth of the new Administration's commitment to promises made earlier by Richard Nixon...
...might be called Cease-Fire II, Thieu gave a showy display of that belief. In the annual South Vietnamese celebration of power known as Armed Forces Day, jet fighters whistled overhead while tanks, self-propelled artillery and armed amphibious vehicles thundered past the reviewing stands on Saigon's Tran Hung Dao Boulevard. Twenty thousand men-the equivalent of two divisions-marched in the parade. Security was tight: the general public was kept well back from the scene. Thieu and his carefully screened guests watched from the reviewing stands. Cost of the display: about $320,000, including...
Kissinger and Tho were apparently unprepared for these new objections. In Saigon, acting U.S. Ambassador Charles Whitehouse conferred twice with South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam. He also spent three hours closeted with Thieu at the Presidential Palace-one of the longest meetings since the ceasefire. Next morning, another government spokesman announced that the declaration of the previous day was "inaccurate...