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...Pham Dang Lam, Saigon's observer at the talks up to now and a former Foreign Minister (1964-65), will head the official group. The other members include: Nguyen Xuan Phong, like Lam a Southerner and former Minister With out Portfolio under Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky when Ky was Premier in 1966; Mrs. Nguyen Thi Vui, niece of a Trotskyite killed by other Communists in 1946 and a successful law yer with a long record of working for the poor; Vuong Van Bac, a Northerner, a lawyer and a Ky man; and Nguyen Ngoc Huy, a professor...
Thieu meanwhile was quietly lining up support in the Senate and the National Salvation Front for a change of stance that would enable his country to join the talks. Ambassador Bui Diem was recalled from Washington for consultations with the President. From Paris, Ambassador Pham Dang Lam reported that arrangements for the arrival of a South Vietnamese delegation had been completed: housing had been secured and cars had been hired. Thieu also spent time working on the composition of a delegation, amid insistent demands from Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky that he head the negotiating group...
...Nebraska 1888-election year, git the topicality? Grandpa composes a real rip-snortin' campaign song for Cleveland (Let's Put It Over with Grover) and every dang one of his relations accompanies him on a instrument. There's Mom (Janet Blair), Dad (Buddy Ebsen) and eight kids so durn sweet you could eat 'em up, cep'n they'd cause diabetes. Wai, 'fore you know it everybody's bein' as colorful as a cartoon, droppin' g's, singin' passels of ungrammatical songs (" 'bout you, 'bout...
...save your nation Before it's too late, Let's stop our crooked living, and--think straight!" And "Freedom Isn't Free": "From Vietnam to Alamein, Our fighting men will have died in vain, If we just go on with our comfort and ease, Doing exactly as we dang well please!" It was stirring. And then, after all the songs, Will Storey, a Negro and one of the troupe's leaders spoke. He was followed by national program director John Sayre accompanied by catcalls and hisses. And finally a song, that old rhetorical question "Which Way America?" There was applause...
Late last year Ky fired Delta Commander General Dang Van Quang, a Southerner and a friend of General Go's, who also bore a strong aroma of corruption. He hesitated about firing Co only because any outright dismissal might precipitate an internal Cabinet dispute. As a Southerner, Co could easily cry prejudice if Northerner Ky canned him. As Ky remarked to one American recently: "Before I can fire even a driver, I have to check with eight generals and their families...