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...Pentagon papers say: "The explanation of how the U.S. mission became detached from political realities in Saigon in August 1963 is among the most ironic and tragic of our entire Viet Nam involvement." Unfortunately, it is no different...
...against democracy, President Nguyen Van Thieu had not made a single campaign speech. His total campaign effort, it appears, will consist of three TV and three radio broadcasts. Previously planned visits to the countryside were scrubbed for security reasons, but were unnecessary anyway in the absence of any opposition. Saigon, meanwhile, hummed with exotic speculation about the shape of things to come. One opposition daily even wryly suggested that Mme. Thieu had threatened suicide if her husband did not resign. The newspaper was promptly seized...
...Saigon's political mood could best be described as tense but basically subdued, despite Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's efforts to inject some life into it. General Duong Van Minh had dropped out. Ky was barred from the presidential race by South Viet Nam's Supreme Court, then given the go-ahead, but he dropped out anyway, protesting that the contest was rigged. Last week he again publicly called for Thieu's resignation. In place of the Oct. 3 balloting he suggested that he, as Vice President, take charge of South Viet Nam and organize...
...plushly carpeted office in Saigon's Presidential Palace, Thieu was very much at ease. Seated on a red chair, he spoke in a strong voice and laughed often at his own jokes. Yet there was something slightly defensive about his answers...
...Coutard, the skeletal narrative often seems no more than a backdrop for his arresting images. He is at his best looking at Saigon through the children's eyes as they wander through a nightmare city that has been torn by war but is still bursting with luxurious restaurants and gaudy nightclubs. Coutard seems to share the children's wonder and confusion. There is one especially moving interlude in which they huddle around a sidewalk movie machine to watch an old Fernandel film...