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Frederick D. Weil '73, Lampoon Ibis, led the crowd in the singing of a Dylanesque arrangement of "Nguyen Thieu's Blues," sung to a note of social protest...
FREEDOM SQUARE--In a nostalgic return to the campus activism of the late sixties, the Harvard Lampoon, a coalition group of middling to liberal humorists, led a pre-victory demonstration yesterday on behalf of Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam...
...first week of South Viet Nam's presidential election campaign started off quietly enough. Supporters of President Nguyen Van Thieu, now the sole candidate in the Oct. 3 elections, blanketed the country with tens of thousands of posters advertising his "democracy slate." The President himself was in an expansive mood. In a meeting with supporters from the provinces, he declared that he would hesitate to remain in office if he received less than 60% of the votes; the week before he had put the figure at only...
...dinner interview with foreign correspondents, Thieu confidently discounted Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's threats of a coup d'etat against his government. Although Ky himself was now silent, he did dispatch an aide to Washington to urge that the Nixon Administration cut off economic and military aid to force postponement of the one-man presidential race. U.S. diplomats in Saigon settled into a quiet cynicism over the no-contest race...
Saigon's political mood could best be described as tense but basically subdued, despite Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's efforts to inject some life into it. General Duong Van Minh had dropped out. Ky was barred from the presidential race by South Viet Nam's Supreme Court, then given the go-ahead, but he dropped out anyway, protesting that the contest was rigged. Last week he again publicly called for Thieu's resignation. In place of the Oct. 3 balloting he suggested that he, as Vice President, take charge of South Viet Nam and organize...