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...salaries of some 36,000 "phantom troops"-men who are on the payroll but nowhere else in the military. Thieu also cashiered 377 corrupt officers and dismissed four Cabinet ministers, including his cousin and confidant, Information Minister Hoang Due Nha, 32, who was responsible for censoring (and often confiscating) Saigon's Vietnamese-language newspapers...
More Protest. Next day 5,000 Catholics were scheduled to march from the suburb of Gia Dinh to central Saigon, where they would join with other protesting groups. None of them made it. In Gia Dinh, would-be paraders awoke to discover their district surrounded by a police line. They tried to march anyway. In the melee, police smashed Father Thanh's glasses and bloodied his face. By week's end scores more had been injured. Eleven opposition legislators were beaten and one was arrested. The Viet Nam Press Club was raided by police, who rounded...
Since Richard M. Nixon lost the support of Congress after the Watergate scandal, Fonda said, the Indochina Peace Campaign (IPC), a grassroots organization to which she belongs, persuaded Congress last fall to cut $474 million from Nixon's military aid request for Saigon and Laos...
...with less aid to Saigon, the people, not the communists, are taking to the streets," Fonda said. "They are not so repressed. It is a Vietnamese Watergate...
Thieu is in very serious trouble and opposition leaders promised this week that their demonstrations will continue to grow in frequency and scope. It now appears that nothing short of a renewed infusion of direct and indirect American aid to the Saigon government can save Thieu. While this might seem an unthinkable proposition for an America still scarred from its previous involvement in Vietnam, recent actions of President Ford and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 indicate otherwise. In fact, the Ford administration has already gone to great lengths in Congress to increase aid to Thieu and even threatened...