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...constitution written by a popularly elected Constituent Assembly. Voters in more than 4,000 villages and hamlets have gone to the polls to choose their own local officials. And last week the people of South Viet Nam chose a President, Nguyen Van Thieu, a Vice President, Nguyen Cao Ky, and 60 Senators in a free election that confounded the fledgling nation's friendly critics and its mortal enemies. In the U.S. and Viet Nam, by word and by bullet, it was an election conducted under fire...
Certain that they had scant chance of beating the ticket of Chief of State Thieu and Premier Ky, the ten civilian candidates for President claimed fraud almost from the moment the campaign started. A dozen U.S. Senators, led by Robert Kennedy and Jacob Javits, echoed their claim that the election campaign was a "farce" and a "charade." It was to counter such senatorial critics that President Johnson hastily assembled 22 U.S. observers and dispatched them to Viet Nam as poll watchers...
Since they commanded the loyalty of the army, the resources of the government, and had the almost certain prospect of victory to use as leverage in making deals for votes with the country's large sects-the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai-Thieu and Ky had counted on taking more than 50% of the vote. Privately, however, U.S. analysts in Saigon had calculated that in an absolutely free and unpressured vote, the Thieu-Ky ticket would probably garner between 30% and 50% of all votes cast. Thieu was actually elected President with...
...Phen Khac Suu, 62, former chief of state and present Speaker of the Constituent Assembly. But both men were left in the dust by Truong Dinh Dzu, a plump 50-year-old lawyer with a fiery McCarthylike gift of rhetorical invective. In fervent measure, Dzu attacked both Thieu and Ky as he campaigned on a peace platform. Coming in second, he pulled 17% of the vote, as against Suu's 13% and Huong...
...seat Senate. With the 480 candidates blocked off in groups of ten to a slate, the voters had to choose six from among the 48 slates. On the theory that it would ensure him a loyal majority in the Senate, the complex system was devised by Ky himself last spring when he expected to be the presidential candidate. But the voters were not amenable. Ky personally backed eleven slates, and all but one of them lost. Thieu promoted two slates, and both lost. Huong promoted two; both lost. Runner-Up Dzu backed five; all lost. Indeed, the six triumphant slates...