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...handling of the Buddhist "struggle" crisis last spring showed expert timing. His Cabinet-level downgrading of ambitious "Southerners" has been deft and sometimes subtle. His trip to Australia and New Zealand, despite demonstrations against him, generally created a surprisingly good impression. Unlike such predecessors as Big Minh and Nguyen Khanh, the flamboyant, purple-scarfed aviator has been remarkably low key in his power plays. Last week Ky's cool tactics canceled a major threat to his country's stability. At a remove of 6,000 miles, Ky undercut and exiled his Deputy Premier and Defense Minister, Southern-born...
...emigre "parties" are mere cliques that are largely ignored in Viet Nam itself. Typical is the new Central Left Party organized by General Nguyen Khanh, the strongman who was overthrown last year by current Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and other generals. So far, the party has only 60 members and has put forth no program...
...sometimes fist. It was Loan who cracked down on the Buddhists during last spring's riots in Hué and Danang. He has taken over control of Saigon's sloppy port security, sharply reducing theft and graft, is currently using his National Police to clean up An Khanh, a shantytown across the Saigon River that seethes with smugglers and bandits. Southerners accuse him of building a police state. "Hell, no," he says. "We don't even have enough gasoline to keep our Jeeps on 24-hour patrol...
...Oppressed Races." In September 1964, Fulro rebels captured five Special Forces camps in the highlands and along the Cambodian border, killed 50 Vietnamese troops, and seized the radio station at Ban Me Thuot-a highland town of 30,000 that serves as the Montagnard capital. Premier Nguyen Khanh tried to calm the Montagnards with enlightened promises of a bill of minority rights, but political instability in the capital made implementation of the new policy impossible. The Viet Cong also made a play for Fulro, but were as unsuccessful as Saigon in winning either the Montagnards' arms or their acquiescence...
...than any other correspondent. On her way round the world in 1962, she stopped off in Saigon, then stayed on to build a reputation as an energetic reporter who preferred to operate on her own. She developed valuable contacts among the Vietnamese; her friendship with deposed Premier Nguyen Khanh, for example, won her a revealing exclusive interview in which Khanh tried to establish his own political standing by taking a militant, anti-American stand (TIME, Jan. 8, 1965). Beverly finds the "biggest challenge as a woman correspondent is that most of the American troops expect me to be a living...