Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from bearded antiwar pro testers to barefoot poverty workers. Their slogan : "Don't Mourn for Amer ica -Organize!" Martin Luther King urged that next year's elections be turned into a "referendum on the war" - and Pediatrician-Protester Dr. Benjamin Spock declared his willingness to head the ticket. Such ambitions were quickly doused in a power grab by 400 militant Negro delegates...
Certain that they had scant chance of beating the ticket of Chief of State Thieu and Premier Ky, the ten civilian candidates for President claimed fraud almost from the moment the campaign started. A dozen U.S. Senators, led by Robert Kennedy and Jacob Javits, echoed their claim that the election campaign was a "farce" and a "charade." It was to counter such senatorial critics that President Johnson hastily assembled 22 U.S. observers and dispatched them to Viet Nam as poll watchers...
...making deals for votes with the country's large sects-the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai-Thieu and Ky had counted on taking more than 50% of the vote. Privately, however, U.S. analysts in Saigon had calculated that in an absolutely free and unpressured vote, the Thieu-Ky ticket would probably garner between 30% and 50% of all votes cast. Thieu was actually elected President with...
...pretty young woman when Businessman Nguyen 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...
...Vietnamese electorate warmed to its role, the civilian candidates who had been crying foul seemed to cool off. The civilian with the best chance of making a strong showing against the Thieu-Ky ticket, former Premier Tran Van Huong, announced that "harass ment has diminished." Front-running Thieu had his own reply to charges of election rigging: "If I were to win the elections by foul means, it would be an insult to myself." President Johnson's 22 observers arrived to see for themselves, and were clearly impressed with the mechanical organization of the balloting. Some 100,000 people...