THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1968 THlE MICHIGAN DAILY P&f,-VV vvwv YA " U' FIVE FEAR COALITION WITH VIET CONG: Saigon Government Arrests Politicians; U.S. Requests Explanation from Thieu AFL-CIO Praises LBJ, Offers Election Funds THE SECOND BIG WEEK! THE MOST TALKEDFABOUT UNDERGROUND FILM OF THE YEAR SAIGON W-The United States was reported seeking an explana- tion from President Nguyen Van Thieu's administration yesterday for the arrest of three prominent anti-government politicians, all rounded up at a time when oppo- sition elements were talking of unity against the Communists. - The official word was that the U.S. Embassy was in consultation with the government about the three, held in what national police called protective custory. Embassy officials were known to be ser- iously concerned about the im- pression the arrests might have - on the government's image abroad. High Vietnamese sources let it be known that a captured Viet Cong list named South Vietnamese personalities who might figure in a coalition government. Thieu's government has gone firmly on record against a coalition with the Communists. The implication was ORGANIZATION NOTICES 4' USE OF THIS COLUMN FOR AN- NOUNCEMENTS is available to offi- cally recognized and registered student organizations only. Forms are available in room 1011 SAB. ** * that other political figures might be detained. No official reason has been given for the arrests. However, Nguyen Ngoc Linh, director general of information, without directly saying the Viet Cong considered the three pros- pects for either assassination or coalition government jobs, sug- gested: "Maybe they got their names on some list." "You know the Viet Cong could jump on those guys and kill them and blame the government," Linh said. Potentially the most trouble- some for the government was the arrest on a Saigon street yester- day of Thich Venerable Tri Quang. He heads militant Bud- dhists who have opposed the gov- ernment with street demonstra- tions and uprisings several times in the past. Also arrested were Truong Dinh Dzu, a lawyer whose peace ticket came in second last September in the presidential election Thieu won, and former Economics Min- ister Au Truong Thanh. Both were picked up at their homes Tuesday. Peace Platform Thanh tried to run in the presi- dential election on a peace plat- form, but the National Assembly eliminated his ticket for "pro- Communist a n d pro-neutralist tendencies." Dzu's wife said after a visit with her husband at national police headquarters he had been told that more "intellectuals" would be detained by police. There were unconfirmed reports five other Buddhist monksgand a former minister in the regime of the late Ngo Dinh Diem had been taken to police headquarters. The arrests occurred just after a government backed "People's Congress" for National Salvation announced in Saigon that it had successfully united several organ- izations and personalities-includ- ing anti-government figures-in- to an anti-Communist front. With spreading of news of the arrests, there appeared to be a strong possibility that some ele- ments of the front would with- draw. 'Protective Custody' Earlier in the Communist lunar new year offensive, former Chief of State Phan Khac Suu was held in "protective custody" for sev- eral days in a villa at national police headquarters. Suu said at his home yesterday that police told him he had been taken to police headquarters be- cause his name appeared on a captured list of the Viet Cong "Movement for the Coalition of South Vietnam." "Probably their names are on the same list," Suu said of Dzu and Thanh. He expressed surprise, however, that Tri Quang had been arrested. That the government would take such strong measures in fear of a possible coalition that would include Communist officials comes as no surprise. The Viet Cong havenproclaimed that any such grouping would follow lines laid down by their National Liberation Front. One of the most knowledgeable of the columnists in Saigon's Eng- lish language newspapers, who goes under the pen name Van Minh, commented on the fear. Van Minh's topic in the Saigon Daily News was an editorial in a Vietnamese language newspaper which wondered why the Com- munist offensive seemed aimed more at South Vietnam's armed forces and installations than at the Americans. He said the editorial "high- lighted the current wild rumors that the United States actually acted in collusion with the Viet Cong in order to force the Saigon government to accept unfavorable ,peace negotiations and a coalition government." Censored Portion Viet Cong radio propagandists broadcast stories to this effect in the early days of the offensive and started rumors so strong that U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker took the unusual move of denying them. Part of Van Minh's editorial was censored. But the censored por- tion was made available and reads : "Although press censorship had been extremely severe, articles speculating on actual American intentions or putting the United States in an unfavorable light have not been censored or have been very lighted censored. This official attitude is not simply a natural manifestation of Vietna- mese chronic xenophobia, but also reveals Vietnamese officials' in- curable suspicions about actual American intentions." MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (P)-AFL- CIO leaders planned yesterday to raise a political war chest of $2 million or more to help re-elect President Johnson and labor friends in Congress. George Meany, president of the 14 million-member labor federa- tion, told a meeting of AFL-CIO political strategists that the out- come of the November presiden- tial election is crucial to organ- ized labor. "It is quite clearly a choice be- tween liberalism and conserva- tism," Meany told officials of the Committee on Political Education (COPE)-the AFL-CIO's political arm. He compared Johnson favorably with the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, under whom most of today's protective labor laws were first enacted. Meany said Johnson's four-year record is equal to or better than the first four years of Roosevelt in the 1932-36 depression era. "Frankly, I consider it even bet- ter for us," Meany said of John- son's performance. The labor political strategists reported that its voluntary collec- tions from union members went over the $1 million mark last year, and is expected to climb well above that in this election year. They also authorized an extra "voluntary assessment" of 5 cents for each of the 14 million workers in AFL-CIO unions. The expected $700,000 this will raise will go for voter registration and get out the vote drives on election day. Meany said the key to victory for labor backed candidates could depend on this campaign to get voters registered and to the polls on election day. He said the increase in the voluntary "give a buck to COPE" political contributions showed an increasing political awareness of union members. "I'm convinced that work, and not shouting, is what we need to do" to help Johnson and liberal congressional Democrats in the elections, Meany said. BLACK ZERO (PALACE OF PLEASURE) Dual projectiono in coolr-by John Hofsess * Winner first prize Vancouver Film Festival * Experiment film-making at its best-L.A. Times * A triumph of sexual are-Chicago Sunday Times. 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