Word: ky
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jean & Jack. Most serious of the U.S. worries is the reaction of the Saigon government. Already, fears of a U.S. withdrawal have produced symptoms of a virulent anti-Americanism. Both Thieu and his flamboyant Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky last week swore they would "never" have anything to do with a coalition government that included the Viet Cong. Ky was particularly upset by U.S. criticism of the performance of the South's government and army. Speaking in Dalat, he lashed out at "those colonialists who think that by giving us a small quantity of material support that they can slander...
Jean or Jack, can insult our people and call them cowardly." If the talks reach a second stage, Ky is scheduled to head the South's delegation?which can hardly be a comforting thought to the U.S. For the time being, Saigon will send as many as 20 "observers...
...seems to be building a similar rhetorical trap for itself by supporting the hysterical South Vietnamese position on the National Liberation Front. Some sort of coalition, linked with withdrawal of North Vietnamese and American troops, now seems the most likely basis for a compromise peace settlement. The Thieu-Ky regime has so far rejected any coalition out of hand, obviously aware that genuine cooperation would doom their military regime...
...reminded me of the Middle East," he recalls. "I had made several trips there while I was in Europe. Its fascination for me had something to do with clarity and voluptuousness, a preoccupation with perfumes and running water, a hashish atmosphere instead of the heavy barrooms-and-whis-ky Rubens atmosphere of Europe. Now I was struck by the similarity of the light in New York. The light in Europe is hazy. I had forgotten how it is here...
...patient, he said, developed visual hallucinations, distortions of sensory perception, loss of insight, muscle rigidity and muteness. "He later related that he saw himself shrivel down to a doll, and witnessed his own funeral," said Dr. Jasinski. To Dr. Harris Isbell of the Federal Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Ky., Dr. Jasinski's experiments "definitely indicated that the psychotic effects of THC are dependent on dosage...