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Vice Lord. Some 25,000 Vietnamese live in France, about 60% of them recent political refugees. Though their ranks include six ex-Premiers and hosts of other once-powerful men, their schemes to return to power are little more than stimulating cafe topics. Bao Dai, the French-sponsored Emperor of Viet Nam for 20 years, has all but forgotten the old days before he went into exile in 1954. Cold-shouldered by De Gaulle (the government no longer subsidizes him), Bao Dai is the guest of a count in Lorraine, spends his time hunting or visiting his concubine in Paris...
Wily, wealthy Tran Van Van, 58, a kind of Oriental John C. Calhoun, last week was working to weld the 44 southern delegates into a cohesive bloc. It will be hard work, for the southerners include military men and members of such disparate groups as the Cao Dai, the Hoa Hao, the Dai Viet party, and a new "Movement for the Renaissance of the South." Should Van succeed, he will have the largest regional grouping in the Assembly (northerners account for 27 seats, central Vietnamese for 28). Cutting across regional lines, Dr. Phan Quang Dan, 48, and his new "Rising...
South Viet Nam's minorities were also well represented: ten members of the Hoa Hao sect were elected, as were seven Confucionists, five Cao Dai, and nine Montagnards. On a regional basis, the winners were evenly divided between the north and the south. "It's going to be quite a debating society," said one-American, recalling the old Saigon saying: "Get four Vietnamese together and you have five political opinions." A few common threads run through the mix: most of the candidates favor a strong executive rather than government by parliament; they want a constitution that guarantees freedom...
...gratitude for the 2,000 Filipino troops President Ferdinand Marcos has sent to help fight the Viet Cong. Along with Ky came his wife Mai, 24, and the airport crowd crushed forward for a better look as she stepped off the plane, strikingly beautiful in a white silk ao-dai. Then the home team brought up its reinforcement: First Lady Imelda Marcos, 36, Manila's beauty queen in 1954 and still gorgeous. The Kys and the Marcos hit it off handsomely at the state banquet that night. After the usual exchange of medals, a four-man combo took over...
Gentle Family Man. The most remarkable thing about the unremarkable-looking little man who is Emperor Hirohito, the Magnanimous-Exalted, the Sublime Majesty, the Imperial Son of Heaven of Dai Nippon, is that none of his rigorous childhood lessons really stuck. When he was 14, he threw his history teacher into a flap by stating that he thought most of the details of his supposedly divine descent were pure moonshine. They had to be, he pointed out politely, because they were biologically unsound and physically impossible...