Word: ky
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retains wide popular appeal. The generals quickly decided to keep him out of the country. Then they turned to an even graver problem-the feud between General Thieu (pronounced Choo), a phlegmatic, 44-year-old career soldier who is known as a shrewd ma- nipulator, and Air Vice-Marshal Ky, a flamboyant, 36-year-old pilot with a penchant for power...
...Staff General Cao Van Vien. There they expressed their deep misgivings over the feud's effect on military unity. They decided to invite the two men to talk things over. In a heated and often an gry confrontation that ran on for nearly three days, the commanders urged Ky and Thieu to compose their differences or resign from office in favor of a caretaker government. Both refused...
Broken Promise. As the discussions wore on, Ky eventually realized that he was in a vulnerable position. For one thing, the generals were clearly annoyed with him for his illegal campaigning and for failing to curb Loan. Unmentioned, but certainly on the generals' minds, was Ky's broken promise that he would withdraw from the campaign if Thieu decided...
What really enabled Thieu to face Ky down, however, was the fact that while the Premier had been busily bidding for popular support, Thieu was vigorously wooing the generals, reminding them of Bunker's warnings against a rigged election. When the meeting began, three of the Corps commanders were known to be neutral. The fourth, Lieut. General Le Nguyen Khang, commander of the critical III Corps area in and around Saigon, was thought to be a Ky man. But Khang failed to support Ky and the Premier realized that he had lost...
Abruptly, Ky decided to yield. If Thieu put him on the ticket, he said, he would bow out of the presidential race. That left Thieu and Ky overwhelming favorites to defeat the other 17 slates now in the running. "Big Minh" may poll a sizable number of votes in absentia, and Huong is expected to do well-but not nearly well enough. Thieu, in fact, may offer to appoint Huong Premier as another step toward unity and conciliation. As for Ky, whose withdrawal won wide praise as an act of genuine patriotism, he is expected to be given far more...