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...three left last week on an inspection and consultation trip to Saigon, where they conferred with Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, and will not return to Washington until this week. Before he left Washington, McNamara confirmed that the upcoming decisions might include "calling up Reserve and Guard forces, extending the tours of duty of personnel presently in the forces, and increasing the draft calls...
...South Viet Nam, including a contingent of some 3,900 troops of the historic 1st Infantry Division ("the Big Red One") that landed last week. On the way from Fort Campbell, Ky., was a 4,000-man brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. Also ticketed for Viet Nam is the Army's recently created 1st Cavalry Air Mobile Division now in training at Fort Benning, Ga. By the end of this year, the U.S. will almost certainly have nearly 200,000 men in Viet Nam, and if the Communists insist on stepping up their own effort, the U.S. troop...
...crash, in 1962), and its cabin service is noted in the Far East. First-class passengers dine on steaks, French wines and cheeses, served by multilingual hostesses in flowing blue and white gowns; one of the girls last year married South Viet Nam's current Premier, Nguyen Cao Ky...
...August. When he does, he will find that things have changed since his first tour of duty. When he left Saigon on June 29, 1964, Major General Nguyen Khanh was Premier; since then, there have been six changes of government, and the current incumbent is Air Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky, whom Lodge has never met. Moreover, at the time of Lodge's 1964 leavetaking, there were 16,000 U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam, restricted to an advisory role and forbidden to carry the war to North Viet Nam. Today, American troops total 67,000, many of them are operating...
...Premier Ky has his own kill-or-cure answer. Wearing wrap-around sunglasses and a button-down choler, he flew through the country last week in his purple Aerocommander, counselling the crowds: "Blindfold all the rice merchants, attach them to a pole, and ask them whether or not they agree to lower their prices." The cocky little air force general had even tougher words for a U.S. correspondent on his plane. Said he: "I'll govern this country like a military command. If I say the price of rice should drop, what I want to see is a price...