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...swollen 94.3% vote ran absurdly far ahead of the 35% that he won in 1967 and the 50% that he had said he would regard as an adequate expression of popular support in this year's balloting. It even surpassed the 89% vote claimed in 1961 by Ngo Dinh Diem, boss of the tough, autocratic regime that was toppled two years later by, among others, a young colonel named Nguyen Van Thieu...
...provides that "the exercise of press freedom shall not be harmful to personal honor, national security or traditional morality." That large loophole leaves Thieu free to crack down on his critics. Chief sufferer has been Tin Sang (Morning News), a reputable opposition daily owned by a tough Catholic politician. Ngo Cong Duc (TIME, Sept. 6). The paper has been seized 166 times so far this year, and Duc's home, office and printing plant have been vandalized or fire-bombed five times. Once the best-selling serious paper in Viet Nam, Tin Sang's circulation has fallen...
...Cong. At a time when the U.S. and South Vietnamese armed forces have finally achieved decisive military superiority within South Viet Nam (at least for the time being), the country is no closer to a viable, broadly based non-Communist government now than it was in the days of Ngo Dinh Diem...
...interview was over and he was showing his visitors out did Ky make his most disturbing statement: "In South Viet Nam, you know, the use of force is constitutional." He was pointing out that President Thieu had resorted to force in 1963 as part of the conspiracy that overthrew Ngo Dinh Diem. A repeat of this episode, Ky suggested, would not be impossible if Thieu continued to run for election unopposed...
...every trick in the freewheeling history of American ward politics and adding some new wrinkles of their own. On election day, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch made a tour of the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Binh, where the government seemed particularly intent on making certain that popular Opposition Deputy Ngo Cong Duc lost (TIME, Sept. 6). Rauch's report...