WASHINGTON was relieved. The embarrassing one-sided presidential election in South Viet Nam was finally over. Whatever the condition of democracy in that battered land, President Nguyen Van Thieu, the man whom the U.S. considers the best bet for stability, seemed firmly in charge. The Nixon Administration was only too eager to turn its attention from Saigon's problems to other more portentous matters: post-freeze economic plans and the return of National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger to Peking late this month to make final arrangements for Richard Nixon's visit to that long-forbidden city.
"Don't Tell Me." Indeed, the Administration has fallen...
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