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While he was preoccupied with preparations for the Manila Conference and playing host to U.S. Defense Secretary McNamara, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky last week found himself faced with a major Cabinet crisis...
...roots seemed all too petty for a nation at war. Ky, who was born near Hanoi and became one of the 800,000 North Vietnamese anti-Communists who emigrated to the south when the nation was divided in 1954, has given uprooted northerners most of the top positions in his government. The birthplace of Cabinet ministers makes little difference to most Vietnamese, but the southerners in the regime resent the powers and patronage that the northerners enjoy. The feud came to a head in the Health Ministry, where Deputy Minister Nguyen Tan Loc, a native of the south...
...newly elected delegates to the National Constituent Assembly solemnly strode into Saigon's freshly whitewashed onetime opera house. They were there to start the tedious task of building a nation out of the shards of war. Starched and spotless in his white dress uniform, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky solemnly listened to the strains of the Vietnamese national an them, then declared: "I wish you success and a constitution that will open an era democratic, progressive and prosperous for all the people." Nguyen Baluong, 65, the senior delegate and presiding officer for the Assembly's opening session, spoke...
...Korean Model. The 20-member bloc of officers elected as delegates was being courted by such civilians as Publisher-Physician Dang Van Sung, 51, who hopes to drive a wedge between Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and his uniformed delegates. "They want to be civilians," said Sung of the military Assemblymen. "That's why they ran." In the headquarters of the ruling directorate of generals, five separate constitutional drafts were circulating; and the generals themselves were busy choosing sides for the presidential power struggle that lies ahead once a constitution is written. Ky and his chief of state Thieu were...
...Real Rewards. The youngster from Glasgow, Ky., who dropped out of Princeton in his freshman year for lack of funds broke into journalism in 1907 as a cub reporter for the Louisville Herald. He covered his first beat on horseback, became a Washington correspondent for the Louisville Times just three years later. In 1915 he was home again in Louisville as editorial director of both the Times and its sister paper, the Courier-Journal...