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Almost eight years after imposing its fierce brand of Communist rule over all of Viet Nam, Hanoi has a new claim to notoriety. "It seemed to me the worst country to live in," commented Elliott Abrams, the Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, as tie unveiled the State Department's annual human rights survey last week...
...report paints a grim portrait of Viet Nam. More than 60,000 political prisoners, it says, remained detained in "reeducation camps" without ever having been brought to trial. Citizens cannot travel, or even change residences, without permission. The press practices rigid self-censorship. There is no freedom of assembly. The forecast for future political rights in Viet Nam? Concludes the report: "Bleak...
According to Huynh Sanh Thong, director of the Southeast Asian Refugee Project at Yale University, the State Department's estimate of 60,000 political prisoners in Viet Nam may be too conservative. He argues that human rights surveys like the State Department's serve a useful purpose. "Hanoi drags its feet [about releasing political prisoners]," says Thong, who emigrated to the U.S. from Viet Nam in 1964. "American public opinion is not unanimous against the regime. Hanoi needs the pressure...
...covers. For the past few years, however, TV Guide's editors have been trying to introduce a brand of muckraking to their pages. Last May the magazine exposed what CBS News later acknowledged were journalistic violations in a network documentary, aired in January 1982, that assailed the Viet Nam War conduct of General William Westmoreland. Last week, however, TV Guide found itself fending off charges of inaccuracy and unfairness, made by CBS, among others, against an article in its Jan. 22 issue...
...young college dropout named Christopher Boyce, then 21, got a job as a communications clerk with TRW, a California defense contractor that was working on surveillance satellites for the CIA. He was disillusioned with the Viet Nam War and Watergate. At a party in 1975, he and a childhood friend, Andrew Daulton Lee, then 22, devised a scheme to sell information to the Soviets. Lee made the first contact at the Soviet embassy in Mexico City, and over the next year and a half collected more than $60,000 for his troubles. Boyce made less: approximately $15,000. They were...