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...Viet Nam's Supreme Court ruled provisionally that Ky was ineligible to run because he lacked a sufficient number of certified endorsements. If the Thieu-controlled court confirms that decision, as is virtually certain, there will be a two-man contest between Thieu and General Duong Van ("Big") Minh-unless Minh carries out his threat to drop out on the grounds that the election is rigged...
...signatures, and they all owe their jobs to Thieu. Ky submitted 102 endorsements, but only 62 were certified; the court ruled the rest invalid because the endorsers had already signed for Thieu. The President had amassed the astonishing total of 448 endorsements from councilmen and 104 from Assemblymen; Minh barely made it with 44 Assembly endorsements...
...strapped for cash, probably could not have mustered more than 20% of the vote in the election. But that 20% might have been enough to let Minh slip into power, since most of it probably would have been siphoned from Thieu's reservoir of votes-the military and the hardliners...
This week the Vietnamese daily Hoa Binh plans to publish the first of 30 installments of the transcript, purchased from a South Vietnamese lieutenant colonel who saw a chance to profit by the example of the Pentagon papers. Though Minh has long cast himself as a man untainted by involvement with the U.S. in general and with the blood of the Ngos in particular, the Diem document supports a fact well established in the Pentagon papers: that Americans had been in contact with Minh's group before the coup. It also implies that Minh knew that the brothers were...
...Questioned about $6,000 in U.S. currency that had allegedly been found in the palace when it was captured, Big Minh said it had been spent, but he could not recall how, why or by whom. Nor could anyone recall what had happened to twelve kilos of gold, worth $15,000, supposedly taken from a third Ngo brother, Ngo Dinh Can, after the coup...