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...that he was in a vulnerable position. For one thing, the generals were clearly annoyed with him for his illegal campaigning and for failing to curb Loan. Unmentioned, but certainly on the generals' minds, was Ky's broken promise that he would withdraw from the campaign if Thieu decided...
What really enabled Thieu to face Ky down, however, was the fact that while the Premier had been busily bidding for popular support, Thieu was vigorously wooing the generals, reminding them of Bunker's warnings against a rigged election. When the meeting began, three of the Corps commanders were known to be neutral. The fourth, Lieut. General Le Nguyen Khang, commander of the critical III Corps area in and around Saigon, was thought to be a Ky man. But Khang failed to support Ky and the Premier realized that he had lost...
Abruptly, Ky decided to yield. If Thieu put him on the ticket, he said, he would bow out of the presidential race. That left Thieu and Ky overwhelming favorites to defeat the other 17 slates now in the running. "Big Minh" may poll a sizable number of votes in absentia, and Huong is expected to do well-but not nearly well enough. Thieu, in fact, may offer to appoint Huong Premier as another step toward unity and conciliation. As for Ky, whose withdrawal won wide praise as an act of genuine patriotism, he is expected to be given far more...
...preventing a bare-knuckled brawl for the presidency, Ky and Thieu seem to have assured a relatively honest election. They have also made certain that the unity of the armed forces will be preserved; military officers will no longer have to worry about losing their jobs for backing the wrong man. To be sure, some South Vietnamese were disturbed by the prospect of continued rule by the military men who have run the country for the past two years. But most U.S. officials are convinced that at the present stage of South Viet Nam's political development, and with...
...Thieu, who takes a tough line toward negotiations with the Viet Cong, has been known to say: "First we beat the hell out of them, then we talk with them." Nonetheless, with a popularly elected government in power, with political stability reasonably assured, and with the army concentrating on the war, the less intransigent members of the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front may decide sooner than anyone expects that the time has finally come to sit down and talk...