Word: cao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most surprising thing about the election was the widespread acceptance of the results. Or was it a resigned indifference? Spokesmen for the militantly anti-Thieu, antiwar An Quang Buddhists charged that Thieu had "killed democracy and given birth to dictatorship." Supporters of Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky urged the Vietnamese "not to recognize the faked results." But never before had Thieu seemed more firmly in command. Before the election, when Ky's people were raising ominous visions of post-election catastrophe, the CIA estimated that there was a 40% chance of a post-election coup attempt...
...People's Force." A second meeting, called by Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, gathered in downtown Saigon under the name of "The Congress of the People's Force Against Dictatorship." As soldiers armed with M-16s and grenade launchers stationed themselves near by, one after another of the speakers denounced Thieu and the "unconstitutional, undemocratic and illegal election." Ky arrived surrounded by M-16-packing airmen. Said he: "I ask the people not to participate in the election, not to go to the polls, not to accept the results of the election...
...persuasively argued that the current presidential election would have been farcical even had Duong Van Minh and Nguyen Cao Ky run, because President Thieu's supporters would have rigged the election in his favor. Nevertheless, any election would have been preferable to none at all, if only because the campaigning would have provided an outlet for grievances and opposition policies...
...fact the only thing that appeared to unsettle him was a charge by Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky that Thieu so feared for his safety that he slept in different places. Thieu took pains to assert publicly that "I spend every day and every night in the Independence Palace...
...Conscience. The vote had no practical effect, but nonetheless revealed a considerable depth of political feeling. Said Senate First Vice President Huynh Van Cao, a retired general and friend of Thieu's: "President Nixon can support President Thieu, but President Nixon cannot force the Vietnamese people to support President Thieu." Added Senator Nguyen Van Chuc: "Thieu can claim he has 60 or 70 or even 97 percent of the votes of confidence, but the question is: who will believe these claims? There is a chance President Nixon alone will believe in them...