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...Thieu unopposed, but he also had sole control of the election machinery, and his poll watchers were the only ones on hand to observe what the officials he had appointed were up to. On top of all that, casting a vote of nonconfidence in Thieu's "Democracy Slate" was not an easy matter. Province chiefs and mayors designated the sites of the polling places, for example; in last month's elections for the Lower House, they located the polls at convenient sites in pro-Thieu regions-but a good long walk from the nearest village in anti-government...
Most of the candidates for City Council, including the progressive Cambridge Civic Association slate, liberal incumbents Barbara Ackerman and Robert Moncrieff, independent candidates, and Socialist Workers Party candidates showed up for the 'illegal' meeting and spoke to a group in the street. Five councillors were conspicuously absent: incumbents Thomas Danehy, Daniel Clinton, Walter Sullivan, Alfred Velluci, and Thomas Coates. It is clear from this incident that these candidates do not want to discuss in public the present state of the government they run. The interests of these same politicians are served by Cronin's decision...
...first week of South Viet Nam's presidential election campaign started off quietly enough. Supporters of President Nguyen Van Thieu, now the sole candidate in the Oct. 3 elections, blanketed the country with tens of thousands of posters advertising his "democracy slate." The President himself was in an expansive mood. In a meeting with supporters from the provinces, he declared that he would hesitate to remain in office if he received less than 60% of the votes; the week before he had put the figure at only...
LINDA BANUELOS, 20, a page in Chicago's First National Bank: "The slate is handed to you by the 'toppies'-Establishment people who don't give the average person a say at all. I'm just not convinced that voting will help-you're just voting for the Government...
...Muskie, who must win convincingly in his own backyard. Each candidate will need to carry one of the Midwestern states; Wisconsin is likely to be the major target. The Oregon primary is a key litmus. But most important is California; the winner there will carry the biggest delegate slate into the convention...