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...filing deadline for South Viet Nam's presidential elections came last week, and Nguyen Cao Ky's chances went. In what one U.S. embassy official described as "the most critical week of the election," President Nguyen Van Thieu managed to eliminate his Vice President from the October balloting. South 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...
...factor in shrinking the field was an electoral law that Thieu rammed through the National Assembly in June. It requires a candidate to submit to the Supreme Court the certified signatures of 100 provincial councilmen and city mayors (out of 550) or of 40 Assemblymen (out of 191). The hitch-for Ky -was that in the 44 provinces, only the province chiefs could certify the 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...
...issue was raised by the man who led the Diem coup: Duong Van ("Big") Minh, a former general and one of the chief rivals of President Nguyen Van Thieu, who last week formally declared his candidacy. Two weeks ago, Minh told some reporters that Thieu was at least partially responsible for the killing of the brothers. As Minh told it, Thieu, then a colonel in command of the South Vietnamese 5th Division, was to surround Saigon's cream-colored Gia Long Palace and "protect the life of President Diem" by taking him into custody. But Thieu...
Last week it was Thieu's turn. In a Saigon press conference, he called Big Minh "a coward and a liar" and blamed him for the murders, quoting him as saying at the time of the coup that "the easiest way is to assassinate Diem...
...friendly countries. Our resources will be exhausted. Then we will face our greatest problem, and I hope the Americans will help. But whatever aid comes in should not be directed by the Americans. If it is, we would appear as a lackey in the world's eyes." IF THIEU IS REELECTED. "We cannot rule out the possibility of a coup. After all, it happened to me once. Especially if the elections are not free and honest, we should expect trouble. If I were a Communist, I would help President Thieu get re-elected...