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...trick in the freewheeling history of American ward politics and adding some new wrinkles of their own. On election day, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch made a tour of the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Binh, where the government seemed particularly intent on making certain that popular Opposition Deputy Ngo Cong Duc lost (TIME, Sept. 6). Rauch's report...
...candidate who faced probably the worst obstacles in this election was Ngo Cong Duc, 34, a Socialist, Catholic and nationalist, who is also the best-known and most outspoken antigovernment legislator in Viet Nam. To find out what was involved in campaigning against President Thieu, TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud flew south last week to Duc's home province to follow the candidate on the hustings...
...Cong Duc is far and away the most popular candidate in Vinh Binh, a flat, fertile province in the Mekong Delta, 60 miles southeast of Saigon. Son of a wealthy canton chief who was assassinated by Communists in 1954, Duc has gradually shifted from being a defender of the status quo to being a critic of the war and of the presence of foreign forces. He is now a national personality, and in any fair election would be an odds-on favorite to win. As the campaign came to an end last week, Duc expected to get no more than...
...other instances, polls were located well outside villages in areas of marginal security to discourage voting and poll watching by the candidate's representatives. Nonetheless, as the campaign ended last week, Western diplomats were still fervently hoping for a Duc victory. "By every indication," said one, "Ngo Cong Duc should be a winner. If he doesn't win, it will cast a large shadow on the validity of the lower house election as a whole...
...recent beat was the United Nations, formerly served in the Saigon and Bangkok bureaus. Last week he visited the insurgent forces. "The countryside," he says, "looks quite like Viet Nam, and with all the airpower, armor and artillery the rebels face, it must have been like visiting the Viet Cong in the early days of that other...