Word: thieu
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...persuasively argued that the current presidential election would have been farcical even had Duong Van Minh and Nguyen Cao Ky run, because President Thieu's supporters would have rigged the election in his favor. Nevertheless, any election would have been preferable to none at all, if only because the campaigning would have provided an outlet for grievances and opposition policies...
...from trying to curb Thieu's efforts to "arrange" the election, the Embassy sat on its hands while he prepared to carve Ky out of the race. Last June, when the decisive presidential election law was being rammed through the Lower House (with a wad of U.S. tax dollars), Ambassador Bunker himself was out of the country, attending his 55th Yale reunion...
...eleventh hour the embassy finally dropped its see-no-evil, hear-no-evil posture and persuaded Thieu to have Ky put back on the ballot. But the move was too late and too transparent. There is a temptation, in fact, to paint Thieu as the archvillain of this drama, but it should be resisted. Thieu was as much the pawn of American policy as he was the spoiler...
Bread and Circuses Puppet Theater contributed a gorilla skit entitled "Macthieu" to no one's edification. S. Eric Rayman '73, Lampoon Hautboy, brought the proverbial curtain down on his head with a reading of telegrams to N. V. Thieu that included...
...must stop economic and military aid to countries like greece, Pakistan and Brazil and especially the Thieu regime as long as it continues to prevent elections," he added...