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THE BATTALION Page 15
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1976
Associated Press
Written for Canadian Press
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam is
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as the government in Hanoi seeks
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Vietnam appears to have iden
tified Canada as an immediate
source of assistance. The recent in
vitation to the Canadian Broadcast
ing Corporation to film a report on
life in both North and South Vietnam
was seen by diplomats here as the
opening shot in Hanoi’s wooing of
the Ottawa government.
Similar approaches also are being
made to West Germany and Nor
way.
The Vietnamese “have no alterna
tive but to go for a period of eco
nomic recovery,” commented one
longtime diplomatic observer here.
“The people in the North are looking
for some improvements in their way
of life and the government knows it. ”
The economy is based more on
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At a construction site for the city’s
flood defenses, workers haul dirt
from the river bank to the dikes in
baskets suspended from poles across
their shoulders.
In the countryside, commune
workers stand for hours rhythmically
swinging a wooden bucket to scoop
water from a canal into the rice
paddy. Highways are dotted with
heavily-laden carts, each pulled by a
peasant.
In the North most food is rationed.
The system seems to ensure that a
basic supply of essential foods is
available to the people at low prices
at state stores. At times there are
shortages. But at most times there
also is additional food on the free
market, although prices there for
meat, bread or sugar are as much as
five times the official level.
Wages are low, although the gov
ernment is experimenting with pro
ductivity bonuses for workers in
priority industries. Some of the
wealthiest men in Vietnam today are
coal miners digging open-cast coal
for export to Japan. But those who
have money find few things available
to buy.
“Certainly our men could afford
refrigerators or television sets,” the
manager at the Ha Tu mine said.
“But such things are not available at
present.”
A visitor to Saigon senses a certain
amount of fear among the souther
ners. They appear to be afraid to be
seen talking to foreigners. Many say
they will not mail letters to friends
abroad in case their loyalty to the
new regime should be questioned.
In private conversations, thq few
that this visitor was able to meet
spoke of escape.
Minor campaign problems
have plagued Sen. Mondale
By JAMES GERSTENZANG
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The candidate
was ready to meet dozens of
Mexican-American children eating
their breakfasts in a special commu
nity center program. But when he
arrived, most of the children weren’t
there.
It was typical of what can go wrong
in a campaign — and it was just one
of a number of things, all minor, that
have plagued Sen. Walter F.
Mondale since the Democratic vice
presidential candidate arrived in
California late Saturday night, mid
way through his first major campaign
trip.
Aides say part of the problem is
that Jimmy Carter had no base from
a primary campaign on which to
Sentenced on other charges
Harrises face Hearst kidnap trial
Associated Press
LOS-ANGELES — Emily and
William Harris, sentenced to 11
years to life in prison, now face a trial
in Northern California for the kid
naping of newspaper heiress Patricia
Hearst.
The two Symbionese Liberation
Army members remained at the Hall
of Justice jail here after their sen
tencing yesterday for kidnaping,
robbery and car theft. Authorities
said they would be moved to
Alameda County later this week for
trial on a 19-count complaint stem
ming from the Feb. 4, 1974, Hearst
kidnaping.
The Harrises showed no reaction
when Superior Court Judge Mark
Brandler urged that they spend a
long time in prison. Under Califor
nia law, he was not permitted to set
exact limits on the sentences, and
the couple could be released after a
short time as six years and eight
months.
“It is this court’s recommendation
to the Adult Authority . . . that the
defendants serve an additional and
lengthy period of confinement in the
state prison,” Brandler said.
Harris, 31, and Mrs. Harris, 29,
who already had been jailed for
nearly one year, delivered im
passioned speeches before their sen-
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tences were announced. But neither
asked for leniency as they took turns
speaking from a lectern turned to
ward spectators and reporters seated
behind bulletproof glass.
“I am a revolutionary, and I do not
lose hope for the future,” said Emily
Harris.
“I’m not too impressed by the sys
tem of justice,” said William Harris.
The charges stemmed from a May
16, 1974, robbery and shooting at an
Inglewood sporting goods store and
the commandeering of two au
tomobiles for an escape. Miss Hearst
has admitted spraying the store with
gunfire to help the Harrises flee.
Miss Hearst, an absent co
defendant in the Los Angeles trial,
will be tried next January on the
same charges that were lodged here
against the Harrises. She also awaits
sentencing later this month on a San
Francisco bank robbery conviction.
The most serious Harris convic
tion was first-degree robbery, which
carries a penalty of five years to life in
prison. The two kidnaping convic
tions carry terms of one to 25 years,
and a series of firearm violations
added another possible five years to
the minimum. Brandler said the sen
tences would run concurrently.
Chief defense attorney Leonard
Weinglass termed the sentences ex
cessive. “For two people who have
no prior record, who didn’t injure
anyone or cause any property dam
age, the possibility of life is some
what harsh.”
draw for his general election cam
paign in California. Carter was
trounced by Gov. Edmund G.
Brown Jr. in the state’s primary in
June and never put together a strong
organization.
Local staff members said they
viewed Mondale’s visit here as a dry
run for future trips — and a chance to
work the kinks out of the campaign
machinery.
The case of the absent children
developed at the Centro Latino in
San Francisco’s outer Mission dis
trict, before Mondale flew to Sac
ramento Tuesday for a meeting with
Brown and then flew here.
When Mondale and his motorcade
pulled up to the community center,
there were only a dozen youngsters
in the entire breakfast area.
Plates of scrambled egg
sandwiches and glasses of orange
juice went untouched on the rows of
empty tables as the candidate patted
one child’s tummy while posing for
photographers, then chatted with
community leaders. Mondale has
been active in the Senate in work on
children’s programs.
An official explained that the low
turnout was the result of school reg
istration falling on the same day as
the senator’s visit.
Another problem occurred on
Monday, when reporters showed up
at 9 a.m. in a small restaurant for a
meeting between the senator and
labor leaders. The union men
showed up at 9:30, Mondale at 10.
Everyone had been given a different
time for the meeting.
A stationwagon carrying reporters
to Mondale’s appearances failed
three times to start, and a truck car
rying baggage to the airport had to
be given an emergency start.
The private meeting between
Brown and Mondale was to he fol
lowed by an open discussion of the
closed session in a large briefing
room. But instead. Brown decided
to hold a news conference with the
senator in a crowded corridor out
side his office where little could be
heard or seen.
Mondale said in the impromptu
session that he was “very, very hear
tened by the fact that we have the
most unified campaign in many,
many years in California under Gov.
Brown’s leadership. We have a unity
that is unprecedented.”
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