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JOEL R. HITT Louisville, Ky...
...surveyed and helped lay out most of the routes Pan Am flies, functions as President Juan Trippe's confidant and top corporate ambassador. Only two weeks ago, he was in Saigon trying to smooth out Pan Am's mounting troubles with South Viet Nam's Premier Ky...
...weeks ago, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky declared his candidacy for the presidency of South Viet Nam. His only reservation in standing for the Sept. 3 elections, he said, was that he would "never" oppose his colleague in the ruling military directorate, General Nguyen Van Thieu, should Chief of State Thieu decide to run. Though both officers had wanted a single "military" candidate to avoid splitting the army's loyalties in the balloting, both also want the presidency badly. So last week Thieu called Ky's bluff. He announced that he, too, would run, although it would...
...that mean that Ky would be the ruling generals' military candidate against the five civilians who have so far thrown their hats into the ring? Yes, said Ky: "There will be no other military candidate." As for General Nguyen Van Thieu, Chief of State and Ky's chief rival among the generals, Ky said: "I will never oppose him, but I do not think General Thieu will run." Then he added thoughtfully: "Although nothing is certain in Viet...
...formal declaration of his candidacy until the July 5 filing deadline. It all spoke well for Viet Nam's evolving sense of democracy, if perhaps not so well for the internal harmony of the nation's military establishment, which is about equally divided between supporters of Ky and Thieu...