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Premier Nguyen Cao Ky moved last week to cool the month-old simmering crisis in his Cabinet. The feud was sparked by the Cabinet's southerners, who resent the fact that most of the top jobs in Saigon and within the government and army are held by North Vietnamese-born refugees from Communism like Ky himself. Skillfully de-escalating the crisis, Ky used earnest pleas for unity to placate most of the seven Cabinet ministers who originally petitioned him to resign. In the end, only four finally left the Cabinet...
...Prime Minister Holt has done much to sensitize Australia to its new-found Asian responsibilities, since he came to power ten months ago. Holt visited Lyndon Johnson in Washington, dropped in on Australia's 4,500 troops in South Viet Nam, conferred with Saigon's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. At the Manila conference last month, Holt was vigorously visible everywhere. Before that, Johnson helped Holt's election chances mightily with his own brief visit to Sydney...
...emigre "parties" are mere cliques that are largely ignored in Viet Nam itself. Typical is the new Central Left Party organized by General Nguyen Khanh, the strongman who was overthrown last year by current Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and other generals. So far, the party has only 60 members and has put forth no program...
...flown to Manila to cover Premier Nguyen Cao Ky at the summit, and wangled permission to interview him on the return trip to Saigon. Not until the plane was in the air did Ky tell Fentress their real destination: Cam Ranh Bay. "We get there an hour ahead of President Johnson," grinned the Premier. Fentress-the only correspondent from the Saigon press corps present-had time to interview Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and a Marine general before L.B.J. arrived...
...patient advance spadework in Asian capitals, U.S. diplomats managed to resolve the differences and preclude embarrassments. In Saigon, for example, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge urged Premier Nguyen Cao Ky to beware of impetuous remarks that might wreck the conference-such as repeating his proposal to invade North Viet Nam. "Lodge told Ky that ad libs were fine-so long as you'd worked on them day and night for six months before tossing them out," said one American...