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...This certainly announces the beginning of the end," exulted South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. "A great victory for the people against traitors. A victory for what is right and just against what is cruel. A victory of the entire free world against those who would enslave mankind...
South Viet Nam's minorities were also well represented: ten members of the Hoa Hao sect were elected, as were seven Confucionists, five Cao Dai, and nine Montagnards. On a regional basis, the winners were evenly divided between the north and the south. "It's going to be quite a debating society," said one-American, recalling the old Saigon saying: "Get four Vietnamese together and you have five political opinions." A few common threads run through the mix: most of the candidates favor a strong executive rather than government by parliament; they want a constitution that guarantees freedom...
Purpose of the election is to seat a 108-man Constituent Assembly to write a constitution on which a future democratic government would be based. There are more than 540 candidates -all certified anti-Communists-and last week Premier Nguyen Cao Ky officially opened the campaign with a speech urging his countrymen to "get out and vote." While Ky was promoting the elections, however, the V.C. installed a loudspeaker across a canal from Saigon's warehouse district, began to blare out attacks against them. Another Viet Cong detachment invaded a village ten miles from Saigon, spent the night replacing...
...worst areas of the war: the battle-plagued Viet Cong-infested I Corps, from the Danang area to the Demilitarized Zone and back-a distance of 340 miles. It was, of all things, the opening event in a fun-and-games campaign by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky to rally the nation for the Sept. 11 election of a constituent assembly...
...turned into Ladies' Day in Manila as South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky flew in on a four-day state visit to express his gratitude for the 2,000 Filipino troops President Ferdinand Marcos has sent to help fight the Viet Cong. Along with Ky came his wife Mai, 24, and the airport crowd crushed forward for a better look as she stepped off the plane, strikingly beautiful in a white silk ao-dai. Then the home team brought up its reinforcement: First Lady Imelda Marcos, 36, Manila's beauty queen in 1954 and still...