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President Nguyen Van Thieu saw it as "a very good achievement of our people and our nation." The results of South Viet Nam's one-man election were very good indeed-in fact, too good. According to the government, fully 87.7% of the 7.4 million qualified voters went to the polls last week, and only 5.5% mutilated their ballots to indicate no confidence in the Thieu regime. The President's swollen 94.3% vote ran absurdly far ahead of the 35% that he won in 1967 and the 50% that he had said he would regard as an adequate...
...spokesmen for the guards' union insist that those assigned to it must be armed. The rest of the prison system would thus be rid of its worst troublemakers, who then would be able to make trouble in one explosive spot. "It would be a present day Devils Island," complains Republican State Senator John Dunne, who has embarked on a one-man Attica investigation. "The ethnic makeup would be almost entirely black. It could result in a black concentration camp...
SOUTH Viet Nam President Nguyen Van Thieu took no chances on the outcome of this week's one-man presidential election. To ensure that the voting would be undisturbed by demonstrators or the Viet Cong, he ordered soldiers, police and armed recruits of the Popular Self-Defense Force to patrol the streets and shoot to kill if necessary. As voters went to the polls, whole blocks of Saigon were barricaded or strung with barbed wire. Thieu also refrained from setting his sights too high; he declared that an even 50% of the vote would give him sufficient mandate...
...seriocomic seizure game was stepped up during President Nguyen Van Thieu's one-man run for reelection. Before the campaign started in late August, newspaper seizures for the year totaled 291. Since then, up to the time the polls closed last week, there were nearly 200 more, and virtually all victims were anti-Thieu papers. The wonder is that the regime bothers. Because of government corruption and inefficiency, the seizures seldom suppress a paper entirely, and because the Vietnamese press has a longstanding reputation for venality, relatively few people pay much attention to its attacks on Thieu...
...opposition. He told voters that they could register a vote of "no confidence" in him by mutilating their ballot or dropping an empty envelope into the ballot box. He also made no effort to head off an embarrassing vote by the usually tractable South Vietnamese Senate. Calling the one-man race a "threat to the country," the Senate passed a resolution by a vote of 28 to 3, with 28 abstentions, urging Thieu to resign and turn the government over to the Senate Speaker, who would organize new elections...