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...Ky to Power. Yet the enemy now faces an irrevocable U.S. commitment, and as a result, Saigon of late has had a spring in the step and a sparkle in the eye missing for years. Its visible embodiment is jaunty, popular Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, 35, who has moved with verve from scarf-clad air force commander to chairman of the board in the military collegium now ruling the nation. Ky is the closest thing to a national hero that South Viet Nam has and wherever he goes in Saigon, admiring teen-agers gather round...
WILLIAM L. BIRD Prospect, Ky...
...evident that Hanoi had lost far more than the momentum of its own tidy timetable for the war. The latest series of reports to Saigon from U.S. officials stationed in each of the nation's 43 provinces showed a marked improvement in peasant morale, and confidence in Premier Ky's government. There is also a sharp increase in willingness to inform on the Viet Cong-and to cooperate with the anti-Communist forces. A small but significant example of this occurred in Ben Cat last week when a V.C. terrorist stepped out of a crowd to hurl...
With that, Ky accepted the surrender of some 500 of the most rebellious warriors of the 30-odd largely illiterate montagnard (hill people) tribes that are scattered through the empty high lands-half of South Viet Nam (TIME Oct. 2, 1964). Trouble could break out again, for the rebels demand more aid and more jobs as well as autonomous statehood for the lightly populated areas they occupy. But pointing to dozens of government posts recently handed to the montagnards, Ky for the moment had damped the smoldering discontent. His ultimate aim: to use the breathing space to bring...
...right is Attorney Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, 57, who last week was campaigning in, of all places, Saigon. De Gaulle's catcalls for negotiations have so angered the South Vietnamese that General Ky last June broke off relations with France. So Tixier's assertion that "the injustice committed by General de Gaulle as regards South Viet Nam is inadmissible" fell on ready ears. An unredeemed opponent of Algerian freedom, Tixier made his reputation defending S.A.O. terrorists whom the De Gaulle government brought to trial. Tixier spent all of August touring beaches and resorts, holding forth under a rented...