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...will leave him high and dry. Even if the government seizes the Manhattan properties that earns him an estimated $75 million this year, Marcos has plenty of cash stashed away in untouchable Swiss bank accounts. So it's unlikely that he'll end up like Nguyen Cao Ky, another despot America once supported. The flamboyant Prime Minister of South Vietman during the glory years of 1965-67, now owns and operates a liquor store in California...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Money for Nothing, Trips for Free | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

...lack of individual power to do good in Congress is the price we pay for our fragmented system. It's well worth the cost because it also prevents individuals from abusing authority. Second, Mr. Moses completely ignores the real reason for the ruling--the enforcement mechanism (of OMB and CAO mandatory cuts) puts direct executive power in the legislative branch through the CAO. This decision hardly makes the law useless. A simple revision transferring responsibility solely to the OMB (in the executive branch) would snuff out this objection...

Author: By Kris Kobach, | Title: Missing the Point on Gramm-Rudman | 2/13/1986 | See Source »

...NGUYEN CAO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: New Roles for an Old Cast | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...they condoned the murder of infants so that the tiny bodies could be stuffed with heroin and carried across international borders by young women posing as the mothers of sleeping babies. And a Vietnamese gang member testified that the head of his crime network was none other than Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former Premier and air force boss during the U.S. involvement in Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triads and the Yakuza | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...AMERICAN MOVIEMEN REQUIRE PITH HELMETS, SALT TABLETS, QUININE PILLS TO VISIT THE CAO DAI CAPITAL, TAYNINH [to film The Quiet American- TIME, Feb. 25]? THE CLIMATE IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO A WASHINGTON SUMMER. PERHAPS THE INHABITANTS WERE MYSTIFIED BY THEIR STRANGE ATTIRE AND ECCENTRIC DIET...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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