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Saigon's sputtering Cabinet crisis flared again last week, and in its brief glare, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky began looking like an artful Asian politician. Once again the dissident Southerners in Ky's 26-man Cabinet tendered their resignations en masse. Their aim: to undercut Northern influence in the government and solidify a Southern bloc of soldiers and civilians for next year's national elections. The seven dissidents reasoned that Ky would do anything to avoid a messy internal dispute on the eve of the Manila Conference. "The general idea," said one Southern Cabinet Minister...
Principal problem: how to get rid of Ky's tough but tactless security chief, Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 35, who last month offended the Southerners by nabbing one of their number, and seldom bothers to conceal his contempt for the Southern group as a whole-or any other critics of Ky. Loan, like Ky, is a Northerner who went south after the 1954 partition. The two were fellow pilots in the Vietnamese air force, and when Ky took power last year, he promptly asked Loan to be his director of national security...
...interior and gave their places to his southern friends. He did not get away with it. On the orders of National Police Commander General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a northerner, Loc was arrested, and the battle was on. Infuriated at such highhanded treatment, the southern Cabinet ministers demanded that Ky fire his police chief. Ky refused, but attempted to mollify the southerners by accepting the resignation of Health Minister Nguyen Ba Kha. In response, seven of the 26 members of Ky's Cabinet resigned-including able Finance Minister Au Truong Thanh, who was in the middle of a government mission...
...Ky moved quickly. With tears in his eyes, he made a passionate appeal to the dissenters not to destroy government unity on the eve of the Manila Conference, got them to agree to pocket their resignations for the time being. But the crisis was merely postponed. The southerners have put a price on their continued collaboration with Ky: an end to "northern domination," and the dismissal of General Loan, whose tough tactics, they insist, give the regime "the image of a police state...
Free Rides. Although Fish was founded in West Springfield under Episcopal auspices, its volunteers include Congregationalists, Methodists, Lutherans, Roman Catholics and even one Jew. In Canton, Ohio, a Roman Catholic priest is chairman of the local branch, and in Louisville, Ky., Fish is jointly sponsored by an Episcopal and a Presbyterian church. Purely secular organizations have been happy to contribute too: in Louisville, a local taxi company offers free transportation to Fish's emergency cases...