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...activist role. A handful of members picketed the White House. Campaign-style buttons appeared on lapels-P.O.W.-M.I.A.S NUMBER ONE, NOT THIEU-a reflection of concern that the Administration is using the issue of the prisoners' release to win more time for Nguyen Van Thieu's Saigon government. A splinter group, P.O.W.-M.I.A. Families for Immediate Release, offered anti-Administration position papers, and urged the league to shift from a strictly humanitarian to a frankly political stance by demanding that Nixon negotiate the prisoners' release without regard to Thieu's future...
...presidential election. To ensure that the voting would be undisturbed by demonstrators or the Viet Cong, he ordered soldiers, police and armed recruits of the Popular Self-Defense Force to patrol the streets and shoot to kill if necessary. As voters went to the polls, whole blocks of Saigon were barricaded or strung with barbed wire. Thieu also refrained from setting his sights too high; he declared that an even 50% of the vote would give him sufficient mandate for another four-year term...
...People's Force." A second meeting, called by Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, gathered in downtown Saigon under the name of "The Congress of the People's Force Against Dictatorship." As soldiers armed with M-16s and grenade launchers stationed themselves near by, one after another of the speakers denounced Thieu and the "unconstitutional, undemocratic and illegal election." Ky arrived surrounded by M-16-packing airmen. Said he: "I ask the people not to participate in the election, not to go to the polls, not to accept the results of the election...
...Saigon's Puvlishing Perils Each afternoon in Saigon, as South Viet Nam's 57 dailies start their press runs, the first copies are rushed to the office of the national press director. A battery of readers in Vietnamese, Chinese, French and English gives them a fast run-through, and officials decide which papers are to be seized that day for running articles they consider unacceptable. Word is flashed to police with walkie-talkies stationed outside the printing plants of habitual offenders. While the cops carry stacks of banned papers out the front door, staffers often spirit...
...continuing consultant with the IDA under contract with the Vietnam Bureau of the Agency for International Development (AID), Smithies frequently visits Vietnam. He was in Saigon this summer. Author of several reports not intended for publication, he is now working on a State Department project based at the Columbia School of International Affairs (CSLA...