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Jails
Saigon denies holding political prisoners
By ROBERT KAYLOR
SAIGON (UPI) - The Saigon
government denies holding any
political prisoners, but well
informed South Vietnamese
sources say several thousand of
the detainees are languishing in
jails.
Many political prisoners are
non-Communist pawns in a
cold-blooded negotiating game
between the government of
President Nguyen Van Thieu
and the Viet Cong.
The political prisoner issue
has led to many charges, but
few facts have come to light.
There have been charges of as
many as 200,000 political
detainees held by Saigon.
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Officially, the government
claims all the detainees —about
5,080 “Communist agents” —
have been turned over to the
Viet Cong. Officials admit
privately, however, to an
unspecified number of pro-
Communists still in jail.
One source closely involved
with political detainees agreed
to provide secret information to
United Press International on
condition he remain uniden
tified.
Total About 37,000
The source said South Viet
nam’s total civil prison popula
tion of about 37,000 on March 1
included about 8,500 persons
who could be classed as
political detainees under a
broad classification of “disturb
ers of the peace.”
Os these, somewhat more
than half are considered actual
Communists or Viet Cong
agents. About 4,500 have never
been formally sentenced. At
least 600 are women.
Prisoner exchanges have
halted with a breakdown in
negotiations, but the source
said many prisoners have been
kept in jail for possible use in
future exchanges.
“It is sort of like an account
in a bank,” he said. “You want
to keep money on hand for
things that may come up.”
The source gave this descrip
tion of the political detainee
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By CHARLES S. ALDINGER
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) -
For those interested in sex,
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Good news for men who are
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And along came a govern
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actively sexual generation of
teen-agers.”
situation:
Some are Activists
In addition to actual Commu
nists or sympathizers, prisoners
include persons who have been
caught with anti-government
literature or activists who
“going against the currents of
the government.”
Some prisoners seized under
the U.S.-sponsored Phoenix
program, started to eradicate
the Viet Cong leadership, were
victims of mistaken arrests or
personal grudges on the part of
officials or informers.
Others were ordinary people
who cooperated in such ways as
buying rice for Communists,
either because they needed
money or feared reprisals
against families in Viet Cong-
“Sure, sex is a family
matter, ” the deputy assistant
secretary for population affairs
in the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare added
in a news conference.
“Parents are rightfully con
cerned about the furor over sex
education in schools and such.
But do they want their children
to learn sex in the gutter? Can
they do it alone?”
Heilman said the public
should get away from “the old
feeling that fear and ignorance
of sex has kept women from
being sexually active.”
Paulsen, 50, is a professor of
internal medicine who has been
testing 100 volunteer males with
a combination of the male
potency hormone testosterone
and the artifical hormone
danazol via injections and
orally since mid-1973.
Paulsen said that “a reversi
ble method of male contracep
tion” has not been perfected
yet.
“I hope we can have
something within five years.
Some want the pill. Some might
prefer injections. We would like
to have lots of options,” he told
UPI.
“We started the first adminis
tration of the combinations last
March,” he said. “The men are
married and unmarried, be
tween 19 and 35 years old. and
the ones who tested out ‘safe’
have not impregnated any
women.”
He said that one of the
brightest parts of his research
is that although the combina
tion tested so far does cause
one to put on some weight, it
does not carry even the minute
chance of blood clots which
have cut into use of the female
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controlled areas.
A detailed breakdown of
detainees shows most are held
in four national prisons. Con
Son, a maximum security
institution on an island off the
southern coast, has the biggest
number.
The Other Prisons
Chi Hoa prison in Saigon
holds a number of politically
sensitive cases. Tan Hiep
prison on the outskirts of Bien
Hoa, about 20 miles from the
capital, is an almost exclusive
ly political jail with many hard
core Communist inmates. The
fourth, Thu Due, is a women’s
prison.
One prisoner held in Chi Hoa
is Tran Ngoc Chau, best known
of all political detainees. A
controverisal opposition politi
cian, he was jailed in 1969 for
contacts with his brother, an
admitted North Vietnamese
agent.
In an average month, about
100 to 120 new prisoners are
added to the pool of political
detainees and a few detainees
—perhaps 10 —are quietly
ordered released in govern
ment-held territory.
The freed prisoners are
women who become pregnant
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