Police are investigating vandalism at the American Cultural Center here last night. Plate glass windows were smashed, and slogans calling for a “Viet Cong Victory” and likening the US to Nazi Germany were painted on the walls. The Foreign Ministry expressed regrets today to the US Embassy over the damage to American property.
Police said they had no information to link the vandalism with an anti-US demonstration yesterday outside the Cultural Center by about 60 followers of the left-wing SIAH, Matzpen, and the New Communist Party. The demonstrators had a police permit and dispersed peacefully afterwards. Police said they had no idea whether the vandals were Israelis or Americans.
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