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Seized Spark. It was, in fact, the dismissal of a member of this ten-man Directory that precipitated the crisis. In a bold bid to strengthen the national government and with the near-unanimous support of the Directory, Premier Ky on March 10 sacked Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the canny and insubordinate warlord of the five northernmost provinces that comprise the I Corps. Though Thi had carefully cultivated the Buddhists in his domain, notably ambitious, extremist Thich Tri Quang of Hué, Ky reportedly had Tri Quang's approval for Thi's removal. When some...
...Viet Nam by the Vietnamese, and Americans could only watch despairingly as the tragedy progressed. Through it all ran the baleful influence of Viet Nam's powerful Buddhists, who have helped to topple four previous governments. This time, however, they were up against not only Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, but a whole Directory of tough and determined generals who did not mean to bend easily before the demands of Buddhist monks, particularly when many of the monks openly egged on the rioting mobs...
...Corps area and Saigon were mild and orderly. But the unrest spread steadily, drawing up the civil servants, the military, laborers-all disaffected by South Viet Nam's galloping inflation and wartime insecurity, by wild rumors and even by the growing American presence in Viet Nam. At first Ky kept hands off so as "not to provide any martyrs" among the demonstrators, but the unrest gauge rose from troublesome to serious to grave. Two weeks ago, feeling its credibility as a government at stake, Saigon broke up a demonstration with tear gas and clubs, made its first arrests...
Shoot the Mayor. After the first clash between the government's tough airborne troopers and the demonstrators, Ky summoned an extraordinary session of the nation's generals and officials, who flew in from all over the country. They agreed to call a Congress in one or two weeks to work out the composition of a constitution-making assembly. In a press conference afterward, the mercurial Premier, puffing on Salems and nibbling from a plate of candy, made the angry charge that the city of Danang, where demonstrations were spreading, "is already held by the Communists, and the government...
...buildings, on occasion assisted by Thi's Vietnamese troops. The U.S., which had tried to stay out of the swelling crisis, even to the point of ordering U.S. troops to stay off the streets of Danang and Saigon, suddenly found itself forced to take sides. To "liberate" Danang, Ky needed U.S. planes to move his troops. Next day he got them: six U.S. C-130s, provided on the direct order of Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, lifted 1,300 Vietnamese marines to Danang...