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...Thieu reaches for greater power by grasping all available governmental levers, dissidence grows, the possibility of a military coup becomes more real, and Hanoi may be tempted to continue to stall. Saigon could even return to the chaotic days of revolving governments that followed the overthrow and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. And that would almost certainly shred any remnants of U.S. sympathy with the Viet Nam involvement...
...assuring desired election results (see following story). By ridding himself of all potential challengers-most notably Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and retired General Duong Van ("Big") Minh-Thieu had placed himself in a position of power unparalleled in South Viet Nam since the days of the late Ngo Dinh Diem...
...candidate who faced probably the worst obstacles in this election was Ngo Cong Duc, 34, a Socialist, Catholic and nationalist, who is also the best-known and most outspoken antigovernment legislator in Viet Nam. To find out what was involved in campaigning against President Thieu, TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud flew south last week to Duc's home province to follow the candidate on the hustings...
...Ngo Cong Duc is far and away the most popular candidate in Vinh Binh, a flat, fertile province in the Mekong Delta, 60 miles southeast of Saigon. Son of a wealthy canton chief who was assassinated by Communists in 1954, Duc has gradually shifted from being a defender of the status quo to being a critic of the war and of the presence of foreign forces. He is now a national personality, and in any fair election would be an odds-on favorite to win. As the campaign came to an end last week, Duc expected to get no more...
...relocation. In other instances, polls were located well outside villages in areas of marginal security to discourage voting and poll watching by the candidate's representatives. Nonetheless, as the campaign ended last week, Western diplomats were still fervently hoping for a Duc victory. "By every indication," said one, "Ngo Cong Duc should be a winner. If he doesn't win, it will cast a large shadow on the validity of the lower house election as a whole...