Word: cao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Death Strip. The latest victims were residents of 15 hamlets located just inside or just south of the DMZ. Their displacement was ordered by the Saigon government because Communist troops in ever-increasing numbers have been infiltrating the DMZ from the North. To stop the flow, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky ordered the area bulldozed flat and made into a "death strip" in which anything that moved would be machine-gunned, mortared or bombed to bits. To accommodate the displaced villagers, the government is hastily building its 336th refugee camp a few miles to the south in the Cua Valley...
...South Vietnamese Air Force DC-3 approached the mountain resort town of Dalat, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky left the passenger compartment, took over the controls and skillfully guided the plane down onto the tiny airstrip. Soon after landing, he summoned reporters to the lovely presidential palace once used by President Diem and announced that he would run for President in the Sept. 3 elections...
Mini-Maginot. To prepare for a major Communist offensive in I Corps, Allied engineers last week were bulldozing a 220-yd.-wide "death zone" across the Quang Tri plain, some two miles south of the DMZ. The project, brainchild of South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, is reminiscent of the two 20-ft.-high walls built just north of the 17th parallel by the Nguyen dynasty in the 1630s in a vain effort to discourage invaders from the north...
Looks & Flamboyance. On a national scale, several candidates are also undergoing crash courses in the art of running for the presidency, for which the electorate will vote in September. The two chief prospective candidates, of course, are the two generals who now rule the country: Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu. Both want the presidency, but each wants it with the support of the other and without splitting the armed forces into two camps. Thieu, at 44, is older than Ky by eight years and undoubtedly commands more respect among his fellow officers. A Catholic...
...painful march toward democracy begun by Saigon's Soldier-Premier Nguyen Cao Ky is to have any real meaning, South Viet Nam must produce a literate electorate. But how can this be done in time of war, when rural schools are as much a target of Viet Cong grenades as American military encampments? More than 90 teachers have been slain by the V.C. and another 260 kidnaped since 1960, and many a classroom in the countryside has had its singsong language lessons abruptly interrupted by the staccato racket of a nearby Communist machine...