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...Tran Van Van, 58, a gaunt intriguer who is one of Viet Nam's wealthiest businessmen (Saigon real estate, Delta rice lands), is also an ally of Phan Khac Suu and was imprisoned by the Diem and Khanh regimes. Van is the potential leader of a 44-seat southern bloc in the new assembly...
...others: General Duong Van Minh (Nov. 8, 1963), Prince Sihanouk (April 3, 1964), Henry Cabot Lodge (May 15, 1964), Nguyen Khanh (Aug. 7, 1964), Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr. (Aug. 14, 1964), General William Westmoreland (Feb. 19, 1965), the U.S. Fighting Man (April 23, 1965), Ho Chi Minh (July 16, 1965), the Military Buildup (Oct. 22, 1965), General Harold K. Johnson (Dec. 10, 1965), Man of the Year Westmoreland (Jan. 7, 1966), the U.S. Peace Offensive (Jan. 14, 1966), Dean Rusk (Feb. 4, 1966), Premier Nguyen...
There followed a dizzying succession of governments, eroding the war effort and sapping Vietnamese credibility about any regime in Saigon. General Duong Van Minh took over after Diem, to last just three months. Then came General Nguyen Khanh, who gave way to Harvard-trained Economist Nguyen Xuan Oanh ("Jack Owen") seven months later. Oanh had six days in office before Khanh bounced back in through the revolving door. Khanh gave way again, to Saigon Mayor Tran Van Huong, then whipped back in for a third-time rule of one month. Dr. Phan Huy Quat and his "Medicine Cabinet...
...nation's discontent, a place where politics is an obsession and proud factionalism the overarching fact of life. Under the French, the people of Hué mounted some sort of rebellious trouble at least once a year. More recently, the agitations that ultimately toppled Diem, then General Khanh, then Chief of State Phan Khac Suu, all began in Hué and rippled southward to Saigon like an infection. And for the last month, the waves of political unrest aimed at swamping Premier Nguyen Cao Ky have been rolling out of Hué in measured but ominously mounting intensity across...
...that Ky's flair, and above all his rapport with Americans, may well prove his undoing. It was probably no accident that yet another spate of coup rumors began to float through Saigon behind the news of Ky's impressive confrontation with Johnson in Hawaii. "We killed Khanh that way," ruminates one U.S. old hand in Saigon, recollecting how the U.S. Mission backed Khanh even when it was clear that the Young Turks had lost faith in his leadership. "And we are in real danger," he adds, "of killing Ky the same way." Ky, at least, is well...