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Forming a government is a traditionally unenviable task in politically fragmented South Viet Nam, as new Premier Tran Van Huong discovered last week. It took tough bargaining with President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, the nation's collegium of generals and politicians of various persuasions. After seven days, Huong put together a Cabinet more or less acceptable to everyone. When he finally presented his choices, they failed to measure up to the hopes of those Vietnamese and Americans who had wanted the popular Huong to shape a government of national unity...
Huong did, however, bring in new men for the main posts. Senator Tran Chanh Tranh, a diplomat and political independent who is not close to either Thieu or Ky, became Foreign Minister. Four-star General Tran Thien Khiem, an ally of President Thieu and presently Ambassador to Taiwan, was named Interior Minister. Dr. Phan Quang Dan, a vice-presidential candidate who ran against the Thieu-Ky military ticket in the September elections, got the ministry dealing with defectors. Huong kept for himself the Rural Development Ministry, responsible for pacification. "The life and death of this country depend on this government...
...youth of today has a big surprise for the world of tomorrow. Because millions of us really care. We are not going to be content with what is going on in Duck Hollow, Ky., or on the shores of Lake Winnecook in Maine. Things will change because we give a damn...
...constitution endows the office of Premier with wide responsibilities-and potential power-in the day-to-day administration of the country on behalf of the President. In the constant clash-and-compromise bargaining between South Viet Nam's two top men, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky persuaded President Nguyen Van Thieu to accept as the country's first Premier a Saigon lawyer and Ky confederate with no political experience, Nguyen Van Loc. Ever since Tet, Saigon has rumbled with rumors that Thieu was going to replace Loc, who had proved a less-than-efficient administrator in the wake...
During his campaign, Huong indicated that he would be willing to sit down and negotiate with the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front if he were certain that it would assure "genuine peace and freedom" for South Viet Nam. Those sentiments do not endear him to Ky and his followers, who are far more fretful than Thieu about the U.S.-North Vietnamese negotiations in Paris. Ky, in fact, was off in Nha Trang when Thieu changed Premiers last week, a fact that led Saigon's hyperactive gossip mills to conclude that Ky might decide to plot a coup...