The noisiest and in some ways the most convincing vote of confidence in the validity and significance of South Viet Nam's elections was cast last week by the Viet Cong.
As the contests for the presidency and a 60-seat Senate entered the final week, Communist terrorists began campaigning with a vengeance to frighten voters away from the polls. In one day, in a coordinated series of attacks the length of the narrow nation, guerrillas killed or wounded nearly 400 Vietnamese. The old imperial capital of Hue was mortared; a Viet Cong battalion briefly took over the provincial capital of Hoi...
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