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What Thieu has done is abolish elections in Viet Nam's 10,626 hamlets. Henceforth province chiefs, all of whom are appointed by Saigon, will choose hamlet officials. The province chiefs will also appoint-without the approval of elected village councils, which has heretofore been required -the staff and administrative officers in every hamlet and village in the country. The effect of the decree is to extend Thieu's control right down to the level where most Vietnamese make their most immediate-and sometimes their only-contact with government...
...hamlet elections as a means of tightening administration and providing more effective services. But, as usual in Viet Nam, the real explanation is more complex. Since the Easter offensive began, a number of hamlet chiefs have made accommodations with the Communists. The new decree will permit Thieu to appoint more loyal replacements. More important, this decree, along with the others, will strengthen his hand for the rough-and-tumble politicking that undoubtedly would follow a cease-fire (the North Vietnamese have repeatedly insisted that any cease-fire agreement must include Thieu's removal). Indeed, Thieu has secretly appointed...
Eunice, too, has always been in public service. A graduate of Stanford with a degree in sociology, she went on to work in Chicago's juvenile court and at the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson, W. Va. In 1947 she was appointed to the dollar-a-year post of executive secretary of the National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency. After her marriage to Shriver in 1953, Eunice shifted her primary field of interest to mental retardation. (Rosemary, the eldest Kennedy sister, is in an institution for the mentally retarded.) When J.F.K. became President...
...looked as if the CCA at last commanded a workable, if shaky, majority to appoint Peterson after Corcoran's resignation. The possible impediments appeared to be delaying tactics by the four independents and a possible court challenge by independent Councillor Thomas Danehy...
Final action may come Thursday when the Council reconsiders its decision to appoint Howard C. Peterson of Princeton, N.J. in place of Corcoran...