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...South Viet Nam's October elections is not supposed to begin until September. But last week the politicking was under way in earnest. In near-simultaneous attacks, President Nguyen Van Thieu's two chief rivals, feisty Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and phlegmatic retired Four-Star General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, both charged that the election itself is being shamelessly rigged...
...bill stipulating that a presidential candidate must have the signatures of either 40 Deputies and Senators or 100 provincial councilors. It was generally assumed that under such a system Thieu, as the powerful incumbent, would win the support of the majority of legislators and councilors; the popular Major General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, another candidate, would corner most of the others; and Ky would be crowded out of the race. But the Senate subsequently defeated the bill. Most political observers figured that Thieu. sensing widespread opposition, would not try to override that defeat by again muscling the measure through...
...some G.I.s actually fighting with the Viet Cong? In Paris last week, V.C. Spokesman Duong Dinh Thao called a press conference to announce that "there are a number of American soldiers fighting in the ranks of the liberation army." He then went on to launch what sounded very much like an UNCLE HO WANTS YOU campaign. U.S. defections, Thao proclaimed, would be encouraged by a just-issued V.C. "order of the day." The five-point order instructed the Viet Cong not to attack G.I. units that refrained from hostile action. G.I.s desiring to slip over to the other side would...
Thus the immediate prospect is for a two-way race. Later on, perhaps some time this summer, a third candidate is likely to emerge: popular but painfully hesitant Duong Van Minh. leader of the 1963 coup that toppled the Diem regime. Strong in Saigon, in Hue, in central Viet Nam and with the militant An Quang Buddhists. "Big Minh" has already staked out a position well to the left of Thieu; he has indicated that he would not be averse to striking some sort of accommodation with the Communist insurgents in the future. When and if he ever gets moving...
...speech, North Viet Nam's Xuan Thuy denounced them as "an electoral gift certificate" aimed solely at improving Republican chances in the November elections. Alluding to Bruce's description of the Communists' Sept. 17 points as "new wine in old bottles," the Viet Cong's Duong Dinh Thao called Nixon's speech "a bottle marked 'Peace' but which contained no wine at all-only gunpowder, poisonous chemicals and many words in the Goebbels style...