Word: saigon
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...great achievement." Paris' prestigious Le Monde termed it a "masquerade," pointing out that Tho had spent his life committed to violent wars of liberation and that Kissinger was part of the American policy that reached its most unpeaceful moment in the Christmas bombing of Hanoi last year. In Saigon, a government spokesman was pleased enough with Kissinger, but he likened the selection of Tho to "nominating a whore as honorary chairman...
...family of antiwar organizations in Cambridge has produced a new member--the New England Coalition to Free Saigon's Political Prisoners...
...coalition came alive in August, when members resolved to direct their protests at two targets--the Saigon government, for its policies toward political prisoners, and the American government, for its aid to Vietnamese prison systems...
...even apart from American maintenance of Thieu's government in general, and American aid to the Saigon budget Thieu uses for prisons at his own discretion, the United States is underwriting at least some of Thieu's prison system in particular, as it has for years. Senator James Abourezk (D-S.D.) recently undertook an extensive investigation into American aid to Saigon's police and he reported to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the end of June...
...year in the United States--a small fraction of the 120,000 Vietnamese in the National Police, the largest South Vietnamese police agency, but a large increase over the 43 policemen trained in the United States the year before. In the meantime, Vietnamese continue to die in skirmishes between Saigon and NLF troops, and Vietnamese prisoners from the Saigon government's jails continue to tell stories of their treatment: "The two hands of the woman are tied together and drawn up to the ceiling," four Vietnamese from Thu Duc prison wrote in 1970. "The police then twirl her around, beating...