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...chief, Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, 76. As befits such an occasion, the Captain threw a luncheon for 900 in Garden City that was a must for every New York politician from Governor Rockefeller and Senators Javits and Kennedy down to 20 of Nassau and Suffolk counties' senators and assemblymen...
...decision led both Maddox and Callaway to step up their efforts to woo individual legislators, but the advantage obviously belongs to Maddox. All but 29 of the 259 assemblymen are Democrats, who are unlikely to give Georgia its first Republican Governor since 1872. Maddox boasted that he had assurances of at least 175 votes, said that only one legislator had refused him, "and he was drunk." Said Callaway: "I never thought that it would be easy for a Republican to become Governor of Georgia...
...Korean Model. The 20-member bloc of officers elected as delegates was being courted by such civilians as Publisher-Physician Dang Van Sung, 51, who hopes to drive a wedge between Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and his uniformed delegates. "They want to be civilians," said Sung of the military Assemblymen. "That's why they ran." In the headquarters of the ruling directorate of generals, five separate constitutional drafts were circulating; and the generals themselves were busy choosing sides for the presidential power struggle that lies ahead once a constitution is written. Ky and his chief of state Thieu were...
...Banana for Dessert. The new as sembly will scarcely be dominated by military types; of 55 uniformed candidates, only 20 were elected. Of the remaining assemblymen, 34 are Buddhists (though none is a known representative of the militant Vien Hoa Dao group that tried to overthrow the government last spring), and fully 30 are Catholics, who make up only 10% of the population. That was enough to end the 100-day fast of militant Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang. From his quarters in a Saigon maternity clinic, Tri Quang promptly labeled the election a fraud. Then he ate a banana...
...decide the ultimate structure of that freedom is the task of the assemblymen, who will gather on Sept. 26 in the shabby National Cultural Center in downtown Saigon (it will get a fresh coat of paint before then). The biggest question is by what formula the military and civilians can share power in a nation at war-a country in which the military is the only strong, cohesive force...