Mr. President. I reported at length yesterday the findings of a recent study mission sent to South Vietnam by the Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees regarding the plight of civilians held as political prisoners by the government of President Thieu. As I noted yesterday. the root cause of the problem are the repressive laws that the Thieu government has decreed. These socalled lawsreally nothing more than the decrees of a dictatorshiphave served to jail tens of thousands of civilians whose only crime has been to exercise free speech in the interest of reconciliation and peacealthough not the reconciliation or the peace that Thieu seeks.
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