The practice of torture is routine in Thieus jails. there is no such thing as habeas corpus. and there are no checks on the military or on the secret police. Recently Thieu has closed down the last of the independent newspapers and has imprisoned a number of journalists without trial and without specific charges. In the countryside he is holding hundreds of thousands of people as virtual prisoners in the refugee camps because he does not want them to return to the landtheir landoutside the control of his soldiers. The list of these tyrannical and inhumane practices is much longer than time allows me to enumerate. Suffice it to say that the Thieu regime represents the very opposite of what the United States claims to stand for in this worldand the very opposite of the aspirations of the Vietnamese people.