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...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...
...dinner interview with foreign correspondents, Thieu confidently discounted Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's threats of a coup d'etat against his government. Although Ky himself was now silent, he did dispatch an aide to Washington to urge that the Nixon Administration cut off economic and military aid to force postponement of the one-man presidential race. U.S. diplomats in Saigon settled into a quiet cynicism over the no-contest race...
Saigon's political mood could best be described as tense but basically subdued, despite Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's efforts to inject some life into it. General Duong Van Minh had dropped out. Ky was barred from the presidential race by South Viet Nam's Supreme Court, then given the go-ahead, but he dropped out anyway, protesting that the contest was rigged. Last week he again publicly called for Thieu's resignation. In place of the Oct. 3 balloting he suggested that he, as Vice President, take charge of South Viet Nam and organize...