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...Thuc Ky, leader of the Dai Viet Party and former presidential candidate: "The U.S. should be more interested in forming a strong government to fight the second phase of the Communist campaign instead of trying to organize a new political front. Only a strong government can regain the confidence of the people and continue the fight against the Communists...
Nguyen Ngoc Huy, an official of the Tan Dai Viet Party: "The Vietnamese people are frightened. Viet Nam needs a real leader, a real patriot. But so far, the Americans have not been able to find such a person. This is because they make a basic mistake-they make contact only with people they feel are leaders, not the people the Vietnamese think are leaders. The trouble with the present government is that its leaders are military men. They lack political ability...
...General Nguyen Van Manh, a portly, indecisive officer who has presided over the steady disintegration of the government's Delta position. In II Corps, which comprises the Central Highlands, General Lu Lan, a respected combat officer, took over from General Vinh Loc, a relative of deposed Emperor Bao Dai, who had earned himself the sobriquet "Lord of the High Plateau." And, in an effort to remove some of the temptations of leadership, Thieu last week decided that henceforth province chiefs would report directly to Saigon rather than to their corps commanders...
...sociological complexity-a characteristic that, ironically, has discouraged and dismayed many Americans. The people are fragmented into a multiplicity of racial, regional, religious and political groups and sects. It is quite possible that in most election districts, the candidate of the dominant group-Buddhist or Catholic, Cao Dai or Hoa Hao, Southern native or Northern refugee-would beat the Communist...
...very well and were likely to vote for them as their once and future employers. That group included the 620,000 men in the armed forces and their 270,000 dependents, the police and civil servants, the strongly nationalist, anti-Communist religious sects of the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai, and sizable numbers of Catholics. All told, they represented a potential block of over 2,000,000 votes. The fact that Thieu's winning total was only 1,600,000 votes virtually nullified any claims of fraud, even though Dzu and six other civilian candidates kept their promise...