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...South Viet Nam, an equally permissive atmosphere has been bolstered by war and galloping inflation. Though Premier Nguyen Cao Ky's hands appear clean, the resort town of Dalat is dotted with the elaborate villas of his generals, whose modest salaries are obviously being supplemented from other sources. The squeeze runs on down into the lower echelons. One high government official pulls out a document detailing the history of a pig between a Delta farm and a Saigon slaughterhouse. The farmer gets 6,800 piasters (about $57), and truck transport is another 400. But on the 50-mile journey...
South Viet Nam's version of West Point, the National Military Academy at Dalat, has added two years to its curriculum-plus the innovation that officer candidates can be flunked if they fail to measure up. Next year South Viet Nam will begin its version of a war college for mid-career officers. So high is the enthusiasm for it that the general in charge of central ARVN training wants to be in the first batch of students. Americans in Viet Nam like to recall that only a little more than a decade ago there was an army with...
...South Vietnamese Air Force DC-3 approached the mountain resort town of Dalat, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky left the passenger compartment, took over the controls and skillfully guided the plane down onto the tiny airstrip. Soon after landing, he summoned reporters to the lovely presidential palace once used by President Diem and announced that he would run for President in the Sept. 3 elections...
...Unnecessary. It was the kind of demagoguery that Buddhist zealots understood. Only a few hours later in Saigon, Laywoman Ho Thi Thieu, 58, set herself afire as a protest against "the inhuman actions of Generals Thieu and Ky, henchmen of the Americans." A monk in the resort city of Dalat followed suit the next day. By week's end, nine men and women had died in fiery antigovernment, anti-American protests, leaving notes written in blood-even letters addressed to President Johnson. Replied the President in his Memorial Day address in Arlington (see THE NATION): "This quite unnecessary loss...
...Corps, but the response was grudging. Though he asked for markets and schools to be reopened in Hue, all he got was a reluctant promise from the rebels to forgo any antigovernment demonstrations for the time being. Even so, there was trouble. In the pleasant mountain resort of Dalat, students kidnaped the commander of the local Vietnamese garrison and held him for 24 hours. He came out fighting mad, and the result was a clash between his troops and some 1,000 demonstrators, in which one soldier was stoned to death and two youths were shot and killed...