Iraq Vote
The February 14 issue of the New Yorker cites a newspaper clipping around 38 years old ...U.S. ENCOURAGED BY VIETNAM VOTE ——— Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror ——— By PETER GROSE Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam’s presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong. . . . A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson’s policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam. "Rings a bit of a bell. The author, Hendrik Hertzberg, argues, however, that there's really very little similarity between the two elections.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 11:28 AM
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