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Thieu quickly began assembling a 100-man team to attend the talks, announced that Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, while not actually heading the delegation, would be "supervising, controlling, directing, going between Saigon and Paris to receive instructions." Ky will also bring his lissome wife Mai to Paris as Saigon's answer to the Viet Cong's attractive Madame Nguyen Thi Binh (see THE WORLD...
Oriana's victims react with predictable outrage. "Dirty liar. Rude little bitch!" Fellini called her in the course of his interview. Nevertheless, the egotists invariably say much more than they plan to. Oriana managed to bring to the surface Nguyen Cao Ky's latent anti-Americanism: "I've never thought that the white race is a superior race-on the contrary. You have to realize that the future is here among us, not among you whites. America should not be called 'the New World' any more; it should be called 'the Old World...
...President. From Paris, Ambassador Pham Dang Lam reported that arrangements for the arrival of a South Vietnamese delegation had been completed: housing had been secured and cars had been hired. Thieu also spent time working on the composition of a delegation, amid insistent demands from Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky that he head the negotiating group. Ky is one of the hawks (or eagles, as they prefer to call themselves in Saigon) on the negotiations issue. Moreover, there were reports that able, popular-but ailing-Premier Tran Van Huong and other Ministers might be replaced. The idea behind such...
Even Thieu's political opponents rallied to his side. "For one year you have asked me to give the President full support," snapped Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, Thieu's most powerful rival, to a U.S. diplomat. "Now I'm going to give the President full support...
Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, all along the most intransigent of Saigon's top officialdom toward peace moves, also seemed to be relenting, particularly after several no-nonsense conferences with U.S. Deputy Ambassador Samuel Berger. For the first time since they were inaugurated one year ago last week. South Viet Nam's President and Vice President were seen in deep conversation in the corridor that separates the "Thieu wing" from the "Kywing" of Saigon's Independence Palace. Said Ky to an aide: "What can I do? I must accept this reconciliation for the sake of the country...