Word: cao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FOURTEEN students receive bachelor's degrees in Harvard's three-hundred-thirty-fifth Commencement Exercises. Honorary degree goes to Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky "for his dedicated statesmanship, open-hearted humanitarianism, and distinguished service in the Armed Forces of the United States." Stephen J. Kelman '70, Swedish meatball for the Boston Globe, is invited back for the second consecutive year to deliver the Pig Latin Oration on "The Ythmay of Expressionary," In his swearing-in ceremony, Harvard's new president comments...
Once there was a Vietnamese pilot-politician who wore a violet scarf with his jumpsuit, tossed off remarks about Hitler's good points, and generally seemed to make himself the personification of a great deal that is wrong in Saigon. Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky is no longer so psychedelic in speech and dress. Still, he is such an easy target for peace partisans in the U.S. that when he was invited to address a pro-war rally in Washington in October, the Nixon Administration deflected the pre-election visit. As consolation, Henry Kissinger promised Ky an official invitation...
...Thieu feels neglected, however, he is not alone. Mme. Nguyen Cao Ky, the fetching wife of Thieu's Vice President, has been heard to complain with some heat: "I am mad at my husband. In the day he's busy with official business; at night he's busy with Gunsmoke...
Time for Girls. When they want to, that is. Like their famed colleague, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, who also flew an A1, South Vietnamese pilots are flashy, hard-living and at times insubordinate. The Vietnamese pilot may refuse to make a tactical support strike if he does not happen to like the ground commander calling for one. "American pilots go wherever and whenever they are ordered, with no questions asked," says one South Vietnamese ground commander. "With the Vietnamese, you can never be sure. If you call for an air strike in the late afternoon, they will say that...
...Rejects demands to oust President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem, but makes no mention of keeping Communists out of the government that would be created to supervise elections. Previously, Washington has said that all "peaceful" political elements can participate; that, of course, could be interpreted to exclude any Communists who didn't agree to a ceasefire...