Word: electives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unusual confrontation, President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu, flanked by Ky and their aides, decided to come out of the palace and meet the monk. Loudspeakers broadcast a curbside debate between Thieu and Tri Quang to several thousand Vietnamese who gathered to watch, smiling and drinking soda pop. The militant Buddhists were angry because Thieu had approved Moderate Buddhist Thich Tarn Chan as the official spokesman for Viet Nam's United Buddhist Church, a loose association to which most of the nation's Buddhist sects belong. It is a position of influence that Tri Quang coveted for himself...
...Vietnam spoke before the Council last night, arguing that "it is unfair to the people of Cambridge that the City is maneuvering to keep this off the ballot." At one point, Dennis DeCoste reminded the Council that "over 8000 people signed the petition--twice the number needed to elect any one of you to the Council...
...advocating a qualified franchise whereby all citizens who either (a) have reached a certain level of education (b) have attained a certain income level or own property, or (c) are married to someone who qualifies in either of these areas--would be classified as "A" voters and would elect about 80 per cent of the members of Parliament. The "B" grade voters would be everyone else who is literate and they would select only twenty per cent of the MP's. Mrs. Suzman says that this system is a practical compromise between the one-man-one-vote program which...
...members have a tendency to talk incessantly among themselves, and not to others; but largely the HUC problem is its unrepresentative nature. It consists of 22 students, all of whom are elected by House Committees and the Freshman Council rather than directly by the undergraduate body. In other words, someone who has the energy for such things can gather a few dormitory votes, get himself elected to his House Committee, have the House Committee elect him to the HUC, and finally defeat one or two possible rivals for the HUC chairmanship. With this support, he can become "the Harvard student...
Occasional irregularities there surely were, just as the U.S. has its West Virginia presidential primaries and predictable voting patterns in Cook County, Ill. But among the Vietnamese, the overwhelming feeling about their own election last week was that it was as honest as they have ever known, more honest than anyone expected. That feeling promises much for the future of Viet Nam-and for the new mandate of President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu...