Word: cao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dinner interview with foreign correspondents, Thieu confidently discounted Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's threats of a coup d'etat against his government. Although Ky himself was now silent, he did dispatch an aide to Washington to urge that the Nixon Administration cut off economic and military aid to force postponement of the one-man presidential race. U.S. diplomats in Saigon settled into a quiet cynicism over the no-contest race...
Saigon's political mood could best be described as tense but basically subdued, despite Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's efforts to inject some life into it. General Duong Van Minh had dropped out. Ky was barred from the presidential race by South Viet Nam's Supreme Court, then given the go-ahead, but he dropped out anyway, protesting that the contest was rigged. Last week he again publicly called for Thieu's resignation. In place of the Oct. 3 balloting he suggested that he, as Vice President, take charge of South Viet Nam and organize...
...honest balloting could have signified a long step toward open and competitive democracy, vindicating Nixon's policy of Vietnamization and justifying a stepped-up U.S. withdrawal. But last week President Nguyen Van Thieu killed any lingering hopes for such a success. By ordering opponent Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's name off the ballot, he turned the election into an all but meaningless referendum on his own performance in office (see THE WORLD). In Washington, Administration leaders were utterly dejected. "To say that we're disappointed gets nowhere near the depth of it," said...
...icebox." In their view, the American ambassador is shrewd, cool and manipulative, a match for the wiliest Vietnamese politician. He seems, in a word, inscrutable-so much so that a great many Vietnamese believe that Bunker, acting on Richard Nixon's behalf, eased Big Minh and Nguyen Cao Ky out of the presidential race. After all these years, they still do not understand the Yankee gentleman from Yale...
...vote would constitute an expression of confidence. And though voters could conceivably cast blank ballots as a way of showing disapproval, the President's supporters have ways of assuring desired election results (see following story). By ridding himself of all potential challengers-most notably Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and retired General Duong Van ("Big") Minh-Thieu had placed himself in a position of power unparalleled in South Viet Nam since the days of the late Ngo Dinh Diem...