Frank Williams S. Vietnam students against call-up
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WHILE the military situation in South Vietnam has bogged down into sporadic fighting and localised guerrilla operations, the political situation continues to deteriorate rapidly.
In Hue, on August 29, a mass rally of 3,000 students demonstrated against the mobilisation decree of the South Vietnam government, which makes all higher school certificate holders eligible for military service.
This latest decree shows how desperately short of manpower the puppet government is, and although the decree has been somewhat modified, the students - and the Buddhist clergy as well as the urban population - have defied the threats of the regime to demonstrate not only against the decree, but against the whole reactionary, medieval set-up that passes for government in Saigon.
Civilian government call Main target for attack by the students was General Van Thieu, Chief of State, and the most hated man next to Air Vice-Marshal Cao Ky. The students demand the election of a civilian government to replace the military junta.