Word: cao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ToughTalk. Lower-echelon officials took up the cry. A government declaration urged that the war be pressed "until total victory liberates our whole national territory." Toughest talk of all came from Khanh's air force commander, mustachioed Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky, who packs a bone-handled six-shooter in a Texas-style holster. At a news conference, Ky embarrassed his U.S. advisers by openly confirming that for three years South Vietnamese sabotage teams have been slipping into the north on the ground and by air. "I myself dropped special-forces units into North Viet Nam," boasted Ky. Actually...
Last week came another indication that perhaps the pro-Soviets still had some say: Hanoi mysteriously announced that a "protocol on an exchange of experts" had been signed with Russia, indicating that Moscow might be preparing to resume some aid. To Cao Bang. North Viet Nam could use it. Thanks to inefficiency and "natural calamities," the rice crop fell to below 5,000,000 tons last year (down from 9,700,000 in 1962), cutting the minimum ration to less than 26 Ibs. per person per month. To expand arable land, the regime has ordered the crash-digging of irrigation...
...baskets. To dramatize the pathos of the forced migration, Red River peasants had made up a song: Carrying a sack of rice, a wife says goodbye to her husband, And sadly cries: "I love you very much, You who have to go far to the mountain region Of Cao Bang...
...officials maintain that the generals are quietly accomplishing much beneath the surface; considered an important achievement is the junta's start at winning over the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai sects, many of whose members had collaborated with the Viet Cong. But the junta chairman, Lieut. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, seems reluctant to wield power, and the outsized, 22-member military Revolutionary Council has taken few outwardly bold steps. Reported TIME Correspondent Murray Gart: "None of this proves that the generals cannot do the job of running South Viet Nam. It is too soon to tell...
...busy with the problems of a chaotic country. A Buddhist but eager to demonstrate his religious neutrality, he ceremonially greeted Saigon's Roman Catholic Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh on his return from Rome, also dispatched a helicopter to bring home Le Thanh Tat, chief of the eccentric Cao Dai politico-religious sect, who had been exiled in Cambodia.* The air carried an unmistakable tang of political fever. Repeatedly Big Minh assured visitors of his hope to hold elections "if possible" in six to twelve months. But the U.S. is in no hurry for him to do so; the country...