South Viet Nam: A Wider Mandate

Elected three months ago to write a new constitution for South Viet Nam, the 117-deputy Constituent Assembly has from its inception taken upon itself a wider mandate to participate in Saigon's ever-simmering political life of the moment. Thus last week the Assembly made its largest stride toward shaping the nation's return to civilian, democratic rule by agreeing on a presidential form of government. But at the same time, it was up to its ears in the lingering controversy surrounding the murder of Deputy Tran Van Van fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 16). The ugliest of the rumors had it that the...

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