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Born in Lincoln Ridge, Ky., where his father had become the first black president of Lincoln Institute, a white-run high school for blacks, Young held a bachelor's degree from Kentucky State College and an M.A. in social work from the University of Minnesota. When he enlisted in the Army in World War 11, he was assigned first to electrical engineering studies at M.I.T., but later wound up building roads in Europe in a black company commanded by Southern whites. As a first sergeant he became an effective negotiator between officers and men. "I insisted on the officers...
...government of South Vietnam has delayed, from February to March or even later, invitations to petroleum companies to bid on offshore oil concessions. These concessions are located in the Gulf of Thailand and the south-east offshore region adjacent to the penal colony of Con Son. The Thien-Ky government has not yet determined if it will offer all 18 offshore leases in a block or whether it will stretch out the leasing over a period of months to the 21 contending companies, which are mostly American...
...area, became a major stop on the VIP circuit. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, new to the Senate Armed Services Committee, flew in by executive jet, only to be waved away from Khe Sanh when Communist mortar fire suddenly thudded in. South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in his standard field getup-black flight suit, purple scarf and revolver-arrived to visit South Vietnamese marines. "I tried to visit Laos myself," he later told reporters. "But I was told it was much too dangerous...
...South Vietnamese commanders hope, most of the kinks have been worked out of Lam Son. Certainly, Saigon has not overlooked anything that might improve ARVN's chances in the fighting to come. Vice President Ky has even commissioned Vietnamese composers to fashion songs celebrating ARVN bravery, nobility and sacrifice. Whether they will be tunes of victory, too, remains to be seen...
AMERICANS pledge to end the imposition of Thieu, Ky and Khiem on the people of South Vietnam in order to insure their right of self-determination, and to insure that all political prisoners are released...