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...second election campaign began just after the new administration of President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu had won validation of the first. By a vote of 58 to 43, the Provisional Legislative Assembly cleared Thieu's last legal barrier to power. One result of the validation was new trouble in the streets of Saigon, where several elements continued to contest the right of Thieu's administration to rule. Students demonstrated briefly but were quickly contained by police. Thich Tri Quang, South Viet Nam's most troublesome monk, declared a hunger strike beneath his tree opposite Independence Palace...
...unusual confrontation, President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu, flanked by Ky and their aides, decided to come out of the palace and meet the monk. Loudspeakers broadcast a curbside debate between Thieu and Tri Quang to several thousand Vietnamese who gathered to watch, smiling and drinking soda pop. The militant Buddhists were angry because Thieu had approved Moderate Buddhist Thich Tarn Chan as the official spokesman for Viet Nam's United Buddhist Church, a loose association to which most of the nation's Buddhist sects belong. It is a position of influence that Tri Quang coveted for himself...
Vitamins for the Vigil. Thieu was measured and conciliatory in his reply, offering to bring Tarn Chau and Tri Quang together to mediate what the government regarded as an internal Buddhist quarrel. But Tri Quang refused to meet with Tarn Chau under any conditions created by the government. Instead, dismissing his followers, he settled his robes for an indefinite protest vigil underneath a tree in front of the palace. Each night followers brought fresh changes of robes and food, tea, milk, vitamins, dextrose mixed with water and aspirin. The palace guards permitted Tri Quang to use their gate toilet...
South Viet Nam's runner-up candidate, Truong Dinh Dzu, has clearly enjoyed all the attention he has received since he came in an unexpected second to the Thieu-Ky ticket. Last week Dzu received some unwelcome attention. In a Saigon criminal court, where he failed to appear but was represented by two attorneys, he was found guilty by a civilian judge on charges of writing a bad check for $8,300 and transferring $11,500 from Viet Nam to a San Francisco bank in violation of the currency laws. The first charge carried a sentence of three months...
...guilty verdicts came just a day after Dzu announced the formation of a "Fighting Front for Democracy" made up of six of the losing civilian candidates, who together had polled almost as many votes as Thieu and Ky. "We do not recognize the election," proclaimed Dzu, "it was fraudulent." If the Constituent Assembly validates the election, said Dzu, then "we shall fight in an orderly manner." Dzu will likely be able to keep fighting for a long time, despite the judgments against him. He has a month to appeal the verdicts, then two more higher courts through which...