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Today, as absolute ruler of every civilian and military police and intelligence agency in the country, Loan (pronounced low-on) commands a force of 65,000, serves as Ky's eyes and ears-and sometimes fist. It was Loan who cracked down on the Buddhists during last spring's riots in Hué and Danang. He has taken over control of Saigon's sloppy port security, sharply reducing theft and graft, is currently using his National Police to clean up An Khanh, a shantytown across the Saigon River that seethes with smugglers and bandits. Southerners accuse...
Recognizing the Southerners' attack on Loan as largely a device to further their own political interests, Ky has flatly refused to go along with their demands that his security chief be fired-though he did agree to issue a public reprimand to Loan for last month's incident. This was not enough to placate the angry Southerners. Their prime mover last week was Economics Minister Au Truong Thanh, 41, who flew into Saigon from Washington with fury blazing behind his tinted bifocals. In a private session with Ky, he once again demanded Loan's dismissal. Otherwise, Thanh...
Confused as to whether or not their resignations had been accepted, the Ministers fell easy prey to Ky's maneuvering: he appealed to their vanity and simultaneously hinted at a compromise after the Manila talks were over. In the end, only Economics Minister Thanh made good his resignation. Labor Minister Nguyen Huu Hung agreed to accompany Ky to Manila. And who remained behind to take charge of the government when Ky flew off to Manila at week's end? Deputy Premier Nguyen Luu Vien, one of the most outspoken of the Southern side...
...deeper than the North-South Cabinet split was the wound that Premier Ky sought to heal last week at Pleiku. There, on the edge of Viet Nam's serrated central plateau, he sat down with leaders of the rebellious Montagnard tribes, whose demands for equal treatment have plagued every Saigon government since...
Early this year, Saigon resumed negotiations with the Montagnards, and last week Premier Ky flew to Pleiku with the bill of rights that they had long sought. Already, he had met one of Fulro's demands by setting up a special commission for Montagnard affairs, named a Montagnard to head it. He promised to return tribal lands to Montagnard control, create a special Montagnard pennant to be flown alongside the national flag, and set up an elite highland military force under Montagnard command. Nine Montagnard representatives now sit in Saigon's Constitutional Assembly, and tribal languages are again...