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...Officer Le Van Thanh marched his platoon of armored troops into the school-house voting station. Had he told his men how to vote? he was asked. No, he replied, why should he? He himself had voted for Civilian Huong. On the outskirts of the Delta city of Can Tho, Farmer Ly Van Tarn found the procedures all too honest for his liking. "My wife is ill and cannot come," he explained, "so I brought her voting card, her identity papers and a family picture to prove I am her husband. But still they would not let me vote...
...partners and good friends was Nguyen Huu Tho, a onetime Saigon lawyer who now heads the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front. That friendship lent some credence in voters' minds to Dzu's claim to be able to negotiate with the Communists. Another law partner was Mme. Nhu's brother, Tran Van Khiem. It was a profitable alliance for both men since the Diem family connections gave them an inside track with judges and the police. Along the way, Dzu visited the U.S. and became such a fervent Rotary Club member that he served a stint...
...mortared; a Viet Cong battalion briefly took over the provincial capital of Hoi An, 15 miles south of Danang, leaving 60 Vietnamese casualties be hind; south of Saigon a village housing Viet Cong defectors was assaulted. The major attack was a 10-minute rocket and mortar assault against Can Tho, largest city in the Delta, killing 46 and wounding 268, many of them civilians...
...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...
...have had their plans curtailed and restricted by annual budget cuts which allow them the means of funding little more than salaries at minimum levels. For fiscal 1967, the University of Saigon requested 250 million piasters and received 168 million (about $141,000 American dollars); the University of Can Tho for the same year requested 474 million pisters and received less than 174 million...