Word: cao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thousands of people who have for years lived primarily on money coming in from the U.S. Moreover the Communists, like numerous Saigon governments before them, will face at least some antagonism from a welter of independent political and religious groupings: the Buddhists, the Catholics, the anti-Communist politicians. "The Cao Dai and Hoa Hao in particular are quite hostile to the Communists," observes Harvard Asian Scholar Alexander Woodside. "The Hoa Hao view Marxism as a Western creed, and they view themselves as standing for the residual culture of old Viet Nam. There has been a virtual blood feud between them...
Former South Vietnamese Premier and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky apparently has no qualms about settling in the U.S. Having told a Saigon rally only one day earlier that those who left the country were "cowards," Air Vice Marshal Ky commandeered a helicopter the day before the surrender and personally piloted it onto the deck of the U.S.S. Blue Ridge...
...week progressed, Minh's backing became almost unanimous. Former Premier and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, who just a month ago seemed to be making his own bid for power, began trying to organize pro-Minh sentiment within the armed forces. Politicians, religious and opposition leaders added their backing; even the powerful leader of the An Quang Pagoda group, the Venerable Thich Tri Quang, issued an unprecedented personal endorsement...
...dramatic battle for Saigon. But reducing the city to rubble would increase the likelihood of bitter-end opposition to Communist control by the many well-organized political groups within South Viet Nam?groups like the Buddhists of the militant An Quang Pagoda faction, the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai religious sects, and powerful Catholics like Father Tranh Huu Thanh, who organized effective protests against the Thieu government, not to mention the many thousands of police, militiamen and regular soldiers...
...countrymen. Last week the United Buddhist Church called on Thieu to resign. The An Quang Pagoda faction, representing the most outspoken element of the country's Buddhists, has long opposed the President. So have a number of leading Roman Catholics, members of the National Assembly, former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and such advocates of the "third force" as General Duong Van ("Big") Minh...