Word: trying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vote for Ky. A surprising number of Vietnamese seemed to do just that -think for themselves. And those who did vote to order were not necessarily backers of the government ticket. In the ancient imperial capital of Hué, for example, Thich Tri Quang, the militant Buddhist monk, sent out word to vote for Suu. As a result, Suu not only carried Hué but nearby Danang and Thua Thien province as well. Huong, as expected, carried his old mayoralty of Saigon. Peace Candidate Dzu won five provinces, all longtime, hard-core bases for Viet Cong activity; he was runner...
...town crier of Quang Tri strolled through the streets of South Viet Nam's northernmost provincial capital and shouted his message through a mega phone hammered from old U.S. beer cans: "I would like to tell the people that the candidates for the presidential elections will be here to talk...
Come to the public school and listen to them." In response, a crowd of more than 1,000 gathered at the school to wait for the candidates on the ten civilian slates who were scheduled to make Quang Tri their first stop on a seven-day campaign swing from the DMZ in the north to the Mekong Delta in the south...
...airstrip. The only transportation at Dong Ha was three dusty U.S. Marine trucks waiting for passengers on an other plane. The drivers were willing to let the candidates hitch a ride, but al most to a man, the travelers said it was beneath their dignity to roll into Quang Tri aboard such nondescript vehicles...
...Tri Quang has warned Thieu and Ky that, in his judgment, their actions have been worse than Diem's. He has even threatened to renew his campaign of "nonviolent opposition"-which in Tri Quang's lexicon means anything from mobs of rock-throwing youths in Saigon streets to a full-scale attempt at a coup d'état. But Thieu and Ky are confident that they have the dissident monk under control. "My duty," says Ky bluntly, "is to crush all disturbances of whatever origin...