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CAMPAIGNING for South Viet Nam's October elections is not supposed to begin until September. But last week the politicking was under way in earnest. In near-simultaneous attacks, President Nguyen Van Thieu's two chief rivals, feisty Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and phlegmatic retired Four-Star General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, both charged that the election itself is being shamelessly rigged...
...Ky's salvo was fired in the form of an open letter to the President. Announcing a formal break with Thieu-a somewhat superfluous gesture since the two have been coolly ignoring one another for months-Ky blasted the President for miring the country in a "war with no end" and "preferring the flatteries of sycophants to honest counsel." But Ky's main complaint was that Thieu had "an excessive attachment to power" and was already working to put the elections in his pocket by "silencing the opposition and muzzling the press...
...Blank Ballots. Thieu, in an open letter of his own, dismissed Ky's charges as merely "part of the Vice President's electoral campaign." Then Big Minh piped up. The popular general agreed that there was "some truth in what Ky says," and went on to blast the U.S. embassy for masterminding the rigging of the election despite its professed hands-off policy. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, he jeered, "is a great specialist in elections of this type. He succeeded in the Dominican Republic,* he succeeded in Viet Nam in 1967, and he will succeed again in October...
...Trang -thought the U.S. controlled the Saigon government. The general attitude was summarized by another opposition newspaper, Cong Luan, in an editorial on the presidential elections scheduled for October: "As to what candidate has the greatest chance for success, all Vietnamese agree with the Vice President [Nguyen Cao Ky] that the most trustworthy prophet is none other than [U.S. Ambassador] Ellsworth Bunker." Translation: Bunker knows because Bunker decides. A cartoon in Saigon's Tin Sang daily summarizes a widespread feeling; it shows Ambassador Bunker, called "the Father of the Country," rocking a cradle labeled "Viet...
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