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...four years since his first trip to Vietnam--in the last year of the Diem regime--have seen an "opening up of political process" in Vietnam, Huntington says. The September 3 election, in which the winning Thieu-Ky ticket received 35 per cent of the votes, was "very beneficial" in increasing national political consciousness, which Huntington found to exist in a high degree even in rural areas...
...Ky, by gradually ceding to him some of the broader, extraconstitutional powers that Ky demanded in return for accepting the No. 2 position. One main Ky assignment will be chasing crooks. Says Ky: "During the next four years, I will devote myself to cleaning the house; otherwise, with corruption rampant in the army and administration, we will get nowhere." With that, he ordered the arrest of the province chief and two aides in the coastal province of Binh Dinh on charges of pocketing $134,000 intended to reimburse local peasants whose land had been expropriated for a U.S. air base...
...militant Thich Tri Quang and some 700 saffron-and-grey-robed monks and nuns, their little paper fans fluttering like butterflies in the noonday sun, trekked to the Presidential Palace. It was Tri Quang's first head-on attack on the South Vietnamese government since Premier Nguyen Cao Ky put down the Buddhist insurrection in Danang and Hué in the spring of 1966. Tri Quang lost that round, and this time his chances seemed even slimmer. Then he was campaigning against the generals and demanding an elected government; now he was confronted by an elected government...
...unusual confrontation, President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu, flanked by Ky and their aides, decided to come out of the palace and meet the monk. Loudspeakers broadcast a curbside debate between Thieu and Tri Quang to several thousand Vietnamese who gathered to watch, smiling and drinking soda pop. The militant Buddhists were angry because Thieu had approved Moderate Buddhist Thich Tarn Chan as the official spokesman for Viet Nam's United Buddhist Church, a loose association to which most of the nation's Buddhist sects belong. It is a position of influence that Tri Quang coveted for himself...
...home, at least two virulent former hawks, Senators Stuart Symington (D. Mo.), former democratic candidate for the presidential nomination, and Thruston B. Morton (R. Ky.), former national chairman of the Republican Party, are urging a change in policy...