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When he turned up for a packed press conference in a wing of Saigon's Independence Palace last week, South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky was clad in an outfit that had everything. It was a light blue, double-breasted, bell-bottomed suit with brass buttons-not quite Western, not exactly the Nehru or Mao style, not really a military tunic, but a little bit of each. Above all, it was distinctive and snappy. So was Ky, as he fought for his political life in the wake of his exclusion by the Supreme Court from...
...filing deadline for South Viet Nam's presidential elections came last week, and Nguyen Cao Ky's chances went. In what one U.S. embassy official described as "the most critical week of the election," President Nguyen Van Thieu managed to eliminate his Vice President from the October balloting. South Viet Nam's Supreme Court ruled provisionally that Ky was ineligible to run because he lacked a sufficient number of certified endorsements. If the Thieu-controlled court confirms that decision, as is virtually certain, there will be a two-man contest between Thieu and General Duong...
...General Do Cao Tri, the flamboyant III Corps commander who died in a helicopter smash-up last February, accused then General (and former Senator) Tran Van Don of being "round"-a Vietnamese term of contempt for someone who will roll in any direction...
...Toward the end of the trial a newly promoted general named Nguyen Cao Ky said indignantly: "As I listen to all of the charges against [some of the lower-ranking] generals-dirty, sleeping with the wives of the soldiers, corrupt, disloyal, dishonest-I think we should get rid of them." The performance reflects so favorably on Ky. who is also a candidate for the presidency, that some cynics have suggested he might have had a hand in leaking the documents...
CAMPAIGNING for South Viet Nam's October elections is not supposed to begin until September. But last week the politicking was under way in earnest. In near-simultaneous attacks, President Nguyen Van Thieu's two chief rivals, feisty Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and phlegmatic retired Four-Star General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, both charged that the election itself is being shamelessly rigged...