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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 29, 1967
Saigon assembly may void Thieu election Foreign students to dine
SAIGON—(UPI)—Members of the special election committee of South Vietnam's National Assembly said today they will recommend the election of Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu as president be thrown out because of "many irregularities."
Despite the recommendation, political analysts believed the provisional assembly as a whole would ignore the committee report and promulgate the vote by which Thieu won. The Assembly must make its decision by next Tuesday.
Sources said that a majority of the 17-member special election committee would recommend the election be invalidated and a new one called. There was no indication whether a minority report also would be submitted. The committee must make its report by Saturday.
Plainclothes policemen seized two defeated civilian presidential candidates Thursday as they drove together to the assembly to demand Thieu's election be thrown out on grounds of fraud.
The arrests of lawyer Truong Dinh Dzu and former chief of state Vu Hong Khanh came as militant Buddhist leader Thich
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Tri Quang and a handful of followers spent the night on Thieu's office grounds ringed by barbed wire and combat police armed with bayonets and tear gas.
Khanh was released within 30 minutes, but Dzu, sentenced to nine months in prison by a criminal court shortly after the election, was held presumably for questioning on further criminal charges.
"If it were not for the foreign
might meet students from his native country, Watkins said.
press, I would have been imprisoned or dead long ago," Dzu said shortly before his arrest.
Phan Khac Suu, assembly chairman and another of the defeated civilian candidates, said he believed the assembly must follow the special election committee's recommendation because if it does not, "we will face opposition from the Vietnamese people because they know the election was rigged."
KU foreign students are invited to the 18th Annual Around-the-World Dinner given by the Neosho County United Nations Association at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in Chanute.
The dinner is given to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the UN, said Henry Watkins, program chairman.
Foreign students from other colleges and universities also will be invited so a foreign student
Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, said transportation will be furnished to Chanute. Foreign students planning to attend must sign up in Coan's office, 226 Strong, by Oct. 9.
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