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Duong Thien Dong, president of the Saigon Medical Students Association, said that the present government exerts less control than did that of Ngo Dinh Diem, and that he thinks students "no longer trust in one personality." But he added the youthfulness of members of Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky's administration had attracted the respect of the student movement...
...Power. Yet the enemy now faces an irrevocable U.S. commitment, and as a result, Saigon of late has had a spring in the step and a sparkle in the eye missing for years. Its visible embodiment is jaunty, popular Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, 35, who has moved with verve from scarf-clad air force commander to chairman of the board in the military collegium now ruling the nation. Ky is the closest thing to a national hero that South Viet Nam has and wherever he goes in Saigon, admiring teen-agers gather round...
...more military men acting as political leaders than at any time in the 20th century." He cites Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, Burma's Ne Win Thai land's Thanom Kittikachorn, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Algeria s Houan Boumedienne, Saigon's Nguyen Cao Ky, France's Charles de Gaulle and such nonprofessional but militaristic figures as Cuba's Fidel Castro and Indonesia's Sukarno...
...central-highlands town of Ban Me Thuot last week, South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky became an honorary member of the Rhade tribe. It was a memorable experience. First his combat boots were washed in rice wine from a ritual jar into which the flesh of a sacrificial buffalo had been dipped. Then, as the beast's severed head and tail lay near by, a montagnard sorcerer summoned divine spirits to witness an oath of friendship, and a rebel officer swore allegiance to Saigon Finally, to seal the pledge, two smiling girls presented Ky with...
When the occasion demands, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky can be a very flexible fellow. He has at various times threatened to close all of Saigon's newspapers, line up the city's profiteering rice merchants before a firing squad, and advance the nightly curfew to 9 p.m. But when the drastic threats brought indignant opposition, he quietly retreated. Last week Ky found it convenient once again to show a little flexibility...