Word: ky
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, at least two virulent former hawks, Senators Stuart Symington (D. Mo.), former democratic candidate for the presidential nomination, and Thruston B. Morton (R. Ky.), former national chairman of the Republican Party, are urging a change in policy...
South Viet Nam's runner-up candidate, Truong Dinh Dzu, has clearly enjoyed all the attention he has received since he came in an unexpected second to the Thieu-Ky ticket. Last week Dzu received some unwelcome attention. In a Saigon criminal court, where he failed to appear but was represented by two attorneys, he was found guilty by a civilian judge on charges of writing a bad check for $8,300 and transferring $11,500 from Viet Nam to a San Francisco bank in violation of the currency laws. The first charge carried a sentence of three months...
...guilty verdicts came just a day after Dzu announced the formation of a "Fighting Front for Democracy" made up of six of the losing civilian candidates, who together had polled almost as many votes as Thieu and Ky. "We do not recognize the election," proclaimed Dzu, "it was fraudulent." If the Constituent Assembly validates the election, said Dzu, then "we shall fight in an orderly manner." Dzu will likely be able to keep fighting for a long time, despite the judgments against him. He has a month to appeal the verdicts, then two more higher courts through which...
Public Health Service Hospital for drug addicts at Lexington, Ky. Hiring ex-cons, Burris feels, is the best way to spot losers among bond applicants. He says that "there's very little crime that one of the staff hasn't had experience...
Elsewhere, the action was equally violent but less prolonged. In an unsuccessful attempt to capture Tarn Ky, the capital of Quang Tin province, 40 miles southeast of Danang, the Viet Cong lost 210 men to withering fire from South Vietnamese troopers and the "Miniguns" of a U.S. C-47 gunship called "Spooky." Near the DMZ, a battalion of North Vietnamese regulars ambushed a tank-escorted Marine convoy on its way to the "Rockpile" strongpoint that overlooks infiltration routes from North Viet Nam. Two Marine companies barreled up the road 'from either direction, catching the North Vietnamese in between. Result...