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...Peace Plot." There were no signs that Hanoi was willing to respond, though a faint stir was caused by the Hanoi broadcast of an interview with South Viet Nam's National Liberation Front Leader Nguyen Huu Tho, "civilian" boss of the Viet Cong. Talking to Australian Journalist Wilfred Burchett, Tho said that the N.L.F. "must have its decisive place and voice in any political solution" of the war. Was Tho's wording one of those ephemeral "signals" that Washington is forever waiting for? Not likely, for the Tho-Burchett interview took place on Aug. 25, had been broadcast...
...This certainly announces the beginning of the end," exulted South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. "A great victory for the people against traitors. A victory for what is right and just against what is cruel. A victory of the entire free world against those who would enslave mankind...
...danger of ballot stuffing, the government watched the polls closely. Premier Ky stepped in twice to halt ballot rigging by province chiefs, and indeed his own nephew, running for a seat in coastal Vung Tau, was defeated. Clearly, the generals paid heed to the warning of Major General Nguyen Due Thang, who heads the "revolutionary development" (pacification) program, and also was in charge of running the elections. Thang said: "We have to do this right, or we may never have another chance. The people will never believe us again if this is not a free election...
Purpose of the election is to seat a 108-man Constituent Assembly to write a constitution on which a future democratic government would be based. There are more than 540 candidates -all certified anti-Communists-and last week Premier Nguyen Cao Ky officially opened the campaign with a speech urging his countrymen to "get out and vote." While Ky was promoting the elections, however, the V.C. installed a loudspeaker across a canal from Saigon's warehouse district, began to blare out attacks against them. Another Viet Cong detachment invaded a village ten miles from Saigon, spent the night replacing...
Replacing district officials, the youths marshaled 1,000 student friends, embarked on an ambitious improvement scheme. Nguyen Tan Phuoc, 19, a high school junior, began running a bulldozer on the site of the district's first public high school, which the students are building. Mai Viet Phuong, 20, organized hog co-operatives among the district's farmers. Standing in red clay soil that squished over his sandals, Luong Van Tron, 20, a law student, recalled how his pals kidded him at first about stooping to such "cheap" labor; now eight of them have joined...