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...based human-rights organization. In its most recent annual report, issued last month, it listed Cuba as one of the world's worst violators of human rights. That incensed Juan Antonio Fernandez Palacios, second secretary to the Cuban mission and delegate to a special U.N. committee on "nongovernmental organizations" (ngos). Cuba was determined to pay back the assault. When Freedom House applied to the committee for accreditation to take part in discussions at the U.N., Fernandez pounced...
Citing her own personal responsibility and the group's new political emphasis HVA 's new President Kim Ngos Nguven proposed the idea of having co president to lead the organization in her campaign speech...
...society -- students, workers, businessmen, even bureaucrats -- to participate in mass demonstrations, though he proved regrettably unable to prevent some from turning to rock-throwing violence. Gothom Arya, vice chairman of the Campaign for Popular Democracy, an academics' group, asserts that "everybody rallied behind the students: the political parties, the NGOS ((influential nongovernmental welfare organizations)) and the middle class. This represented | something very new in Thai politics. The middle class is more powerful than ever before...
...told it, Thieu, then a colonel in command of the South Vietnamese 5th Division, was to surround Saigon's cream-colored Gia Long Palace and "protect the life of President Diem" by taking him into custody. But Thieu got to the palace too late, Minh said, and the Ngos had already slipped away. Their bodies turned up the following day, bound and bullet-riddled, inside a South Vietnamese army personnel carrier...
...installments of the transcript, purchased from a South Vietnamese lieutenant colonel who saw a chance to profit by the example of the Pentagon papers. Though Minh has long cast himself as a man untainted by involvement with the U.S. in general and with the blood of the Ngos in particular, the Diem document supports a fact well established in the Pentagon papers: that Americans had been in contact with Minh's group before the coup. It also implies that Minh knew that the brothers were doomed. According to the transcript, Minh told Khanh "even though we knew...