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Purpose of the election is to seat a 108-man Constituent Assembly to write a constitution on which a future democratic government would be based. There are more than 540 candidates -all certified anti-Communists-and last week Premier Nguyen Cao Ky officially opened the campaign with a speech urging his countrymen to "get out and vote." While Ky was promoting the elections, however, the V.C. installed a loudspeaker across a canal from Saigon's warehouse district, began to blare out attacks against them. Another Viet Cong detachment invaded a village ten miles from Saigon, spent the night replacing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Encircled City | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...worst areas of the war: the battle-plagued Viet Cong-infested I Corps, from the Danang area to the Demilitarized Zone and back-a distance of 340 miles. It was, of all things, the opening event in a fun-and-games campaign by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky to rally the nation for the Sept. 11 election of a constituent assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Reconnaissance by Handlebar | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...turned into Ladies' Day in Manila as South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky flew in on a four-day state visit to express his gratitude for the 2,000 Filipino troops President Ferdinand Marcos has sent to help fight the Viet Cong. Along with Ky came his wife Mai, 24, and the airport crowd crushed forward for a better look as she stepped off the plane, strikingly beautiful in a white silk ao-dai. Then the home team brought up its reinforcement: First Lady Imelda Marcos, 36, Manila's beauty queen in 1954 and still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...leave most of their holdings in the New York Federal Reserve Bank's airtight vault 85 ft. below Liberty Street in lower Manhattan. There, gold ingots worth about $12.9 billion are stored-as against the $10.1 billion worth residing in the famed U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Ky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Piggy Bank | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 5, 1966 | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

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