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Originally posted by grimm@Jan 31 2005, 10:04 PM
Lets not start sucking eah others dicks just yet. take a lesson from history
U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote : Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite
Vietcong Terror
by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times (9/4/1967: p. 2)
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.
The size of the popular vote and the inability of the Vietcong to destroy
the election machinery were the two salient facts in a preliminary
assessment of the nation election based on the incomplete returns reaching
here.
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Grimm, your a smart man, there's no comparison what so ever. That was a different time, different goals(abit noble) and very different place. But your right, history will have the final say.