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...Dinh Quat rose to speak. An old farmer at a Delta rally challenged Dai Viet Party Leader Ha Thuc Ky: "We hear you have two big villas and an American limousine." The other Ky, Premier and vice-presidential candidate on the government ticket with Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, ventured into hostile Hue, where he had put down a simmering, Buddhist-led revolt last year...
...Recommended campaign song for the South Vietnamese elections: Ky for Thieu (And Thieu...
...critics in South Viet Nam did not even make a pass at politeness. As the country's ten civilian candidates for president went into their last week of campaigning, they concentrated their attacks on the heavily favored military ticket, headed by Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu...
...disdained even to answer the charges. Instead, he made a "nonpolitical " trip into the Mekong Delta, where he predicted that his ticket would win more votes than all ten civilian candidates combined. Thieu did his part by calling a press conference in Saigon and announcing plans for a purge of all corrupt and incompetent army officers, "from generals down to second lieutenants." Thieu also followed the lead of his civilian opponents and promised that, if elected, he would make a peace bid to Hanoi. If he were to receive some sign of a favorable response, he said, he would propose...
...week's end Thieu finally made his first appearance alongside his ten civilian rivals. Commenting on his earlier peace proposals, Thieu told a cheering crowd of 2,500 in My Tho, south of Saigon, that "I cannot believe the Communists will accept peace easily." As if in proof, a terrorist mine only twelve miles from the rally destroyed a bus and killed 22 passengers...