Word: cao
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Consistent Critic. There were disturbing indications last week that President Nguyen Van Thieu and his supporters have not fully grasped these facts. As expected, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky announced that he would oppose Thieu for the presidency. A few days later, Thieu urged Ky to resign from office immediately and declared: "I have never before heard of a country where a Vice President so consistently criticized the President and the government's policy." Retorted Ky: "I was elected by the people in 1967 and not by President Thieu. So to whom should I send my resignation...
Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, warming up for the presidential elections, has tried to make a little political capital by declaring that people responsible for "social injustice" and "corruption" should be shot. "Often they are people in high places, who 'sponsor' underlings, such as generals or high officials," said Ky slyly. "There are many," he added, smiling. "Maybe even myself...
...imperial capital of Hue last week, President Nguyen Van Thieu stood at smiling attention in a packed reviewing stand as he presided over a parade celebrating South Viet Nam's "glorious victory" in Laos. In Saigon, meanwhile, his Vice President and chief rival, Nguyen Cao Ky, was putting on a show of his own. "You ask why we did not have a victory parade after our successful campaign in Cambodia last year?" he chortled during a talk at a welfare workers' school in Cholon. "We did not have to, you know, because it was a real victory...
...carried an intriguing address book. Among the names (Thien's included) and lists of transactions were initials police believe belong to another deputy who had been engaged in smuggling heroin. Former General Huynh Van Cao, who headed the pro-government Senate slate in last fall's elections, charged that at least two senators were also involved in heroin traffic and then promptly retracted his statement...
...staging area, became a major stop on the VIP circuit. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, new to the Senate Armed Services Committee, flew in by executive jet, only to be waved away from Khe Sanh when Communist mortar fire suddenly thudded in. South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in his standard field getup-black flight suit, purple scarf and revolver-arrived to visit South Vietnamese marines. "I tried to visit Laos myself," he later told reporters. "But I was told it was much too dangerous...