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...gleaming black hair is no longer neatly combed back. The mustache has been trimmed. Gone is the dashing Captain Midnight look: tailored black flying suit, violet scarf, pearl-handled .38 revolver. At 37, the Vice President of South Vietnam, Nguyen Cao Ky, has taken to wearing bulky Mao-style suits -and the baggy new look is in keeping with both his sagging political fortunes and his efforts to fashion a new political image...
...change in Ky has come swiftly and dramatically, partly the result of accident, partly of the kind of political intrigue with which Viet Nam seems to abound. Before the Communist Tet offensive, Ky was much more than a ceremonial Vice President alongside his rival, President Nguyen Van Thieu. Liked by American officials in Viet Nam, who admired his charm, his boundless energy and his decisiveness, Ky retained powerful friends in the Vietnamese armed forces-an entourage rated strong enough to overthrow Thieu if it ever came to a showdown. But with Tet and the harrowing onslaught against the Saigon government...
...National Police chief, were wounded in street fighting in Saigon. Two weeks ago, a malfunctioning rocket fired from a U.S. helicopter gunship smashed into a forward command post and in one shattering blow wiped out virtually the whole top level of Saigon's city administration, including four of Ky's most powerful backers. But by far the greatest damage was caused by President Thieu's gradual consolidation of power: without consultation, he fired Premier Nguyen Van Loc, a Ky man, and installed Tran Van Huong, whom the Vice President opposed. Police Chief Loan was replaced...
...Best Only. As his backing dwindled rapidly and his depression deepened, Ky slipped away to the seacoast city of Nha Trang, where he paced up and down the beaches, lost in thought. He returned to Saigon briefly last week, but only for a private goodbye to outgoing U.S. Commander William Westmoreland and to resign as head of the recently instituted Civil Defense Committee. "I'm going fishing," he snapped to a palace official, and with that he returned to Nha Trang and isolation...
...fall of 1966, he was equally sanguine about the search-and-destroy strategy: "Within six, eight, ten or twelve months-before the end of 1967, at any rate, the chances are good that the war will look successful. We are much closer to the end of what Prime Minister Ky calls the 'military war' than most people here, including most people in government, even dare to hope." While granting that Alsop may be the "hardest-working reporter in Washington," Engberg asks: "What good is it all to someone who resolutely misses the point...