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Coup Attempt. The U.S. had hoped that it would be obvious to the South Vietnamese that a fair and vigorously contested election would knock down Hanoi's persistent charge that the Saigon government is a puppet of Washington. A willingness to allow diverse elements to compete for governmental power might also have convinced Hanoi that the time had come to negotiate seriously for a peace settlement. But as 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...
Cool and elegant in sports shirt, Palm Beach slacks and casual loafers, Bunker relaxed in the well-appointed sitting room of his Saigon house...
...arrested one opposition politician, Tran Tuan Nham, who made the mistake of using a picture of Nixon with a Hitler mustache as a campaign poster. And for the second time in two weeks a crippled veteran set himself ablaze in Danang to protest Thieu's election tactics. Saigon's Disabled Veterans Association grimly announced that it had 40 more volunteers ready to follow his fiery example...
...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 than...
...particularly outspoken opponent of President Thieu, whom he denounces as serving "the interests of war profiteers, the privileged classes and a foreign power [the U.S.]." Soon after entering Congress in 1967, he founded an antigovernment newspaper, Tin Sang (Morning News), which soon became the most controversial journal in Saigon. He traveled to Paris and called for the withdrawal of foreign troops and the establishment of a neutral provisional government in Viet Nam. Since then, he has had nothing but trouble. Duc was labeled a Communist lackey and denied an exit visa for other overseas trips. Tin Sang has twice been...