TIGHTENS VIETNAM CENSORSHIP
According to a UPI dispatch from Da. Nang, an American military spokesman told fifteen newsmen April 26 that the "United States Government would run them out of Vietnam if they failed to play ball with the new press restrictions. we
The unnamed officer was quoted as declaring: "Your accreditation will be lifted without appeal, your agency will be informed, and the U.S.Embassy will recommend that you will be declared persona non grata,"
The two official spokesmen were a marine corps captain and an army lieutenant colonel. ,
Besides telling the newsmen that they were under orders not
to transmit any news except within the newly tightened limits, the spokesmen of the American military command revealed "for the first time in public" that "the South Vietnamese Government no longer has authority over those parts of its territory occupied by the American Armed Forces,
One of the spokesmen was quoted as saying, "The Vietnamese have no jurisdiction in American areas."
This amounts to an anonymous declaration that the U.S. is seizing territory in Vietnam and ousting its own puppets from even nominal control, thus belying the propaganda in Washington that the U.S. seeks "no territory" in Vietnam.