Word: huong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make matters worse, Ky's police chief, Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, was accused of intimidating the Premier's opponents. Former Premier Tran Van Huong, the most popular civilian candidate for the presidency, refused to leave his seaside villa at Vung Tau because he feared that Loan's men would assassinate him. Increasingly, Ky's actions alarmed both South Viet Nam's top military officers and U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. During a luncheon two weeks ago, Bunker gave the Premier a stern talking-to, warned him that he was undermining the fairness and legality...
...decided to yield. If Thieu put him on the ticket, he said, he would bow out of the presidential race. That left Thieu and Ky overwhelming favorites to defeat the other 17 slates now in the running. "Big Minh" may poll a sizable number of votes in absentia, and Huong is expected to do well-but not nearly well enough. Thieu, in fact, may offer to appoint Huong Premier as another step toward unity and conciliation. As for Ky, whose withdrawal won wide praise as an act of genuine patriotism, he is expected to be given far more responsibility...
...undeclared but likely to run is ex-Prime Minister, ex-Saigon Mayor, ex-Schoolteacher Tran Van Huong, 63, who would almost certainly have the best chance of any civilian candidate...
Intelligent, tough and rigidly honest, a quality not much in currency among Vietnamese, Huong has announced that he will run if the final election law, yet to be completed in detail, is so framed that a civilian candidate has a fair chance of winning...
...face of fierce Viet Cong threats, the voters elected 108 members of an assembly that, over the next six months, will forge South Viet Nam's first constitution since the overthrow of the Huong regime two years...