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...number of commentators argued that his selection was a signal that Nixon was committed to a tough policy and that the Communists could hope for few concessions. They recalled Lodge's close association with South Viet Nam's impetuous Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, who heads his government's balky delegation in Paris, and interpreted Nixon's decision to retain Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in Saigon as another sign of a hardening line...
Premier Tran Van Huong, who had appointed Tri, one of his former pupils in Huong's schoolmaster days, cried when he heard the news. President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker all attended the funeral, and Thieu honored Tri posthumously with the National Order, second class. Meanwhile the dead man's friends bitterly suggested a motive for someone more highly placed than a marine sergeant. Huong had tossed out the previous education minister after discovering that scholarships to universities abroad, which carry built-in exemptions from military duty, were being sold...
Rondels are not written to Paris in the winter, when it does in fact drizzle and cold fogs enshroud the Seine. But to Madame Mai Ky, 26, the beautiful wife of South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, the first trip to the "City of Lights" was a source of infinite wonder. With her husband and three-year-old daughter Duyen, Mai ("Snow Flower" in Vietnamese) explored the palace grounds at Versailles. When Ky was busy, Viet Nam's Second Lady delightedly wove her way through the salons of Courrèges and Lanvin. The Vice...
There were signs that Saigon was moving in the same direction. South Viet Nam's flamboyant Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, in a TV interview in Paris, stated that the Saigon regime might sit down with the N.L.F. to work out South Viet Nam's political future once Washington and Hanoi begin negotiations on withdrawing U.S. and North Vietnamese troops from the war zone. The new line was closely attuned to the views of Henry Kissinger, Nixon's White House Assistant for National Security Affairs, who believes that a two-track parley-involving parallel talks between...
...their own countrymen are too expensive." Murmansk in midwinter? Hibbing, Minn.? Or maybe Skagway, Alaska? No. Paris, as seen in a column in the Saigon Daily News noting the woes of South Viet Nam's delegation to the peace talks, led by Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky. The paper conceded, though, that plenty of people in Saigon would be willing to replace the suffering delegates...