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THERE was always something fundamentally unworkable about the script for South Viet Nam's presidential elections in October. Authored in part by U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, the plan called for an earnestly contested race among three candidates-President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and retired four-star General Duong Van ("Big") Minh. If Thieu won a reasonably honest election, the scenario went, the Administration could declare Vietnamization a resounding success and step up the pace of its withdrawal from the longest war in U.S. history...
CAMPAIGNING for 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...
...shown. CBS cameras also covered the Army's much-traveled lecturing colonels; their speeches violated service regulations against public statements on the foreign policy aspects of Viet Nam. Other segments depicted a violent Green Beret karate demonstration and children reveling in it, and a group of VIPs-getting four-star treatment on a Defense Department tour-going gung-ho after test-firing high-priced weaponry. The network included criticism of itself. Walter Cronkite was the Government's narrator in one of the cold war films; a former Air Force information officer in Viet Nam described...
...twice investigated by military authorities on suspicion of paying kickbacks and smuggling, but in both cases the investigations were dropped. Crum's secret of success was no secret at all. "Everyone has a price," he was said to have claimed, "whether he be a private or a four-star general." True to form, he collected high-placed people who could muscle...
Ersatz Election. Overwhelming problems still face President Emilio Garrastazii Medici, a former four-star general who was named President 14 months ago. Brazil's prosperity is benefiting mainly the upper 10% of the country's 90 million people. The more than one-third of Brazil's workers who are tied to the minimum wage (now $40 a month) have watched their real purchasing power shrink by about 50% over the last ten years. Then, too, Medici has yet to make good on his early talk of "free universities, free political parties, free unions and freedom...