Word: huong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Premier Tran Van Huong was going home to lunch, and the motorcade that assembled to take him to his house was routine security. Led by a policeman on a motor scooter, it consisted of three Jeeps filled with South Vietnamese cops toting M-16 rifles, a fourth Jeep loaded with members of the presidential guard and armed with a .50-cal. machine gun, and the Premier's aging black Mercedes limousine. On both flanks, the cavalcade was guarded by plainclothesmen riding Hondas...
Bamboo flutes tweedled, brass gongs thrummed, and Montagnard maidens twisted ceremonial copper bracelets round the wrists of President Nguyen Van Thieu, Premier Tran Van Huong and other South Vietnamese dignitaries. Stoically, the visitors sipped from the brimming urns of mnam kpie, a sour-tasting homemade rice wine. Then they moved on to lunch in the comfortable former summer residence of exiled Emperor Bao Dai, in the highland provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot. The Saigon dignitaries, together with a host of American officials, were joining in ceremonies marking what they hoped would be the end of a tribal rebellion...
Premier Tran Van Huong, who had appointed Tri, one of his former pupils in Huong's schoolmaster days, cried when he heard the news. President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker all attended the funeral, and Thieu honored Tri posthumously with the National Order, second class. Meanwhile the dead man's friends bitterly suggested a motive for someone more highly placed than a marine sergeant. Huong had tossed out the previous education minister after discovering that scholarships to universities abroad, which carry built-in exemptions from military duty, were being sold...
...delegation, amid insistent demands from Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky that he head the negotiating group. Ky is one of the hawks (or eagles, as they prefer to call themselves in Saigon) on the negotiations issue. Moreover, there were reports that able, popular-but ailing-Premier Tran Van Huong and other Ministers might be replaced. The idea behind such a Cabinet reshuffle would be to strengthen the Thieu government internally in preparation for the negotiating period...
June 24: Tran Van Huong tells South Vietnamese National Assembly that, before 1960, "patriotic fighters took to the jungle to fight the Ngo Dinh Diem dictatorship." This is an indication that he feels that not all guerrillas are Communists, could pave the way for eventual amnesty...