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Senator Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois has proposed that a commission from the Congress go to Viet Nam to make sure that the American Embassy is neutral in the coming elections. This would surely be seen as a sign that the Congress was neutral against President Thieu. His regime has severe corruption problems, and he has thrown some of his most prominent political opponents, not necessarily Communists, into jail. But his government is fairly effective and has shown remarkable staying power. It is not up to the U.S. to try to "dump" Thieu...
Consistent Critic. There were disturbing indications last week that President Nguyen Van Thieu and his supporters have not fully grasped these facts. As expected, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky announced that he would oppose Thieu for the presidency. A few days later, Thieu urged Ky to resign from office immediately and declared: "I have never before heard of a country where a Vice President so consistently criticized the President and the government's policy." Retorted Ky: "I was elected by the people in 1967 and not by President Thieu. So to whom should I send my resignation...
...meantime, Thieu's supporters were at work in the National Assembly pushing through a law that will make it difficult for anyone to challenge the President. Last December the Lower House of the Assembly passed a bill stipulating that a presidential candidate must have the signatures of either 40 Deputies and Senators or 100 provincial councilors. It was generally assumed that under such a system Thieu, as the powerful incumbent, would win the support of the majority of legislators and councilors; the popular Major General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, another candidate, would corner most of the others...
...such figures do not explain the rise of high-level profiteering. Under Diem, corruption was relatively restrained and furtive. Today it permeates the hierarchy, in large part because President Nguyen Van Thieu has made no convincing moves to curtail it. His supporters point out that he is restrained from effective action by the fact that his political base includes a number of high-ranking officers who are deeply involved in profiteering. With a presidential election coming up in November, they say, he is in no position to start swinging a political ax at influential backers. His opponents, on the other...
...Washington's mood. Last week New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits warned in a Saigon press conference that the narcotics scandal was "the kind of issue that could upset everything"-meaning the continuation of U.S. military and economic aid. Bunker, in a strongly worded note, told Thieu much the same thing...