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...last determined gamble of Saigon's government to reassert its authority. Premier Nguyen Cao Ky was striking directly at rebellious elements in his own army and indirectly at the militant Buddhists. The clash began with the lightning predawn "invasion" of rebellious Danang by Vietnamese marines loyal to Premier Ky. Soon all the sound and fury of incipient civil war had enveloped the crucial northern base town: the clank of tank treads, the rattle of sniper fire, the sodden plop of tear-gas grenades, the sudden sky-shaking roar of strafing aircraft. Danang's chaotic clangor had its echoes...
...killing ground of South Viet Nam itself, very little of equal value was happening. In a panic-stricken debacle along Saigon's Hai Ba Trung Street U.S. military police opened fire on a truckload of civilian dockworkers and killed six of them. In Danang far to the north, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky made an even more quaking move: a group of Vietnamese marines "invaded" Danang and quietly established control over the major center of Buddhist political unrest, then lounged peacefully on the grass. That quietude may well be shattered by Buddhist riots. From Saigon to the Red Chinese border...
...thing. I am much more concerned about possible disloyal actions by Thieu and Ky, whether or not they remain in positions of power. I cannot guess the future, but to this point the words of these men have not been supported by their actions. The Marine battalions remaining near Danang are an example of what I mean...
...Viet Nam's confused political situation become last week that at one point it nearly produced civil war. Flown from Saigon by Premier Ky to "liberate" the northern town of Danang, three battalions of Vietnamese marines at Danang Air Force Base showed every sign of marching into the city. When he heard of this, Colonel Dam Quang Yeu, commander of Vietnamese army troops at Hoi An, 15 miles to the south, decided to march on Danang to block the paratroopers. With several hundred men, 13 armored carriers, four 155-mm. howitzers and enough ammunition to blow up a city...
...Americans finally persuaded Yeu to meet with Danang's new commander, General Ton That Dinh, who had arrived from Saigon. The two officers talked, slapped each other's back, seemed to reach an agreement for the removal of the howitzers. But Yeu kept them trained on the Danang base, demanding the removal of the Vietnamese marines. For three days, the marines and Yeu remained eyeball-to-eyeball, gun-to-gun. Finally, last week, the central government ordered the Vietnamese marines to leave the base, and Yeu abandoned his position...