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Hiding behind dark glasses and a pseudonym, a pretty young girl last week emerged from Tokyo's Jujin Hospital of Cosmetic Surgery. She had given her name as Miss Dang Tuyet Mai of South Viet Nam. But from the moment she arrived, she had got special attention-as befits the First Lady of any nation. For the patient was, in fact, Madame Nguyen Cao Ky, 24-year-old wife of the Premier of South Viet...
Then Ky, for good measure, shifted some senior officers, notably flamboyant Lieut. General Dang Van Quang. Quang had headed the IV Corps area in the Mekong Delta, where the Viet Cong are still thriving and where no U.S. troops yet operate. Quang had resisted sharing the Delta war with the Allies, so his removal might prepare the way for the U.S..to make a major move into the Delta...
...platform to match her talents. "As the only woman here," she says, "I must accept the responsibilities that should have been distributed more evenly among the millions of us in Viet Nam. Everyone so far has been quite courteous about that." And why not? As Saigon Deputy Dang Van Sung admits: "Who dares attack her? You have to be as careful as you would holding a fresh egg in your hand." A mischievous gleam in her eyes, Mme. Xa concurs: "After all, I also represent the Deputies' wives...
...Korean Model. The 20-member bloc of officers elected as delegates was being courted by such civilians as Publisher-Physician Dang Van Sung, 51, who hopes to drive a wedge between Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and his uniformed delegates. "They want to be civilians," said Sung of the military Assemblymen. "That's why they ran." In the headquarters of the ruling directorate of generals, five separate constitutional drafts were circulating; and the generals themselves were busy choosing sides for the presidential power struggle that lies ahead once a constitution is written. Ky and his chief of state Thieu were...
...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 from arbitrary arrest and freedom of speech; all members are vehemently nationalist and antiCommunist. Some of the more prominent facces: >Dr. Dang Van Sung, 51, a physician turned editor of Saigon's influential daily Chinh Luan ("The Right Opinion"), who is popular among intellectuals and the Hoa Hao, and could probably be elected assembly chairman if he chose. "He may turn out to be the strong minority opposition leader," says one observer...