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...tactical military support. Phat's only triumph lay in convincing Major General Duong Van Due to send elements of his Mekong Delta-based IV Corps north to Saigon. Ironically, Due thought he was joining another coup-that of a group of younger officers headed by Air Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky-and when Due found out he had been duped, he quickly defected...
...officers of South Viet Nam's Military Revolutionary Council sat on hard, schoolroom-style chairs and scribbled their votes on the ballots. A colonel chalked up the results on a blackboard: Khanh, 50; Defense Minister General Tran Thien Khiem, 5; General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, 1; General Do Cao Tri, 1: blank ballot...
ToughTalk. Lower-echelon officials took up the cry. A government declaration urged that the war be pressed "until total victory liberates our whole national territory." Toughest talk of all came from Khanh's air force commander, mustachioed Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky, who packs a bone-handled six-shooter in a Texas-style holster. At a news conference, Ky embarrassed his U.S. advisers by openly confirming that for three years South Vietnamese sabotage teams have been slipping into the north on the ground and by air. "I myself dropped special-forces units into North Viet Nam," boasted Ky. Actually...
Last week came another indication that perhaps the pro-Soviets still had some say: Hanoi mysteriously announced that a "protocol on an exchange of experts" had been signed with Russia, indicating that Moscow might be preparing to resume some aid. To Cao Bang. North Viet Nam could use it. Thanks to inefficiency and "natural calamities," the rice crop fell to below 5,000,000 tons last year (down from 9,700,000 in 1962), cutting the minimum ration to less than 26 Ibs. per person per month. To expand arable land, the regime has ordered the crash-digging of irrigation...
...baskets. To dramatize the pathos of the forced migration, Red River peasants had made up a song: Carrying a sack of rice, a wife says goodbye to her husband, And sadly cries: "I love you very much, You who have to go far to the mountain region Of Cao Bang...