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Because of the general unrest that will likely follow, most observers see the election farce as an important propaganda victory for the Viet Cong. At a time when the U.S. and South Vietnamese armed forces have finally achieved decisive military superiority within South Viet Nam (at least for the time being), the country is no closer to a viable, broadly based non-Communist government now than it was in the days of Ngo Dinh Diem...
...capper to the series of episodes comes near film's end. An instructor is demonstrating the proper way to dispatch a Cong with the use of a blackjack or the victim's own helmet...
Next day the Saigon police chief confirmed what many had already suspected: most of the mob outside the church had been government militiamen. In a crude attempt to justify the attack, he said that McGovern had been unwittingly meeting with "Viet Cong agents." The Senator's demand for an apology from Thieu went coldly unheeded...
Measure of Distrust. The violence quickly escalated. The following night, the popular Tu Do nightclub was blown up with a 15-lb. plastique charge, killing 15 and wounding 57. Though the attack appeared to be the work of Viet Cong terrorists, it was a measure of the distrust in which Thieu is now held that some observers thought that the President might even have engineered that. Their reasoning: any terrorist attack would be blamed on the Viet Cong, thereby strengthening Thieu's anti-Communist stand and silencing such antiwar critics as McGovern...
...cards than there were people in the room. Although the law says that voters must bring their cards with them when they come to vote and that they must take them with them when they leave, very few voters left with cards. "Security," explained the election supervisor. A Viet Cong might steal a voting card and unlawfully exercise a registered voter's franchise. "So we keep the cards in a safe place and give them out again before the presidential election," said the official...