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...chief staging area, became a major stop on the VIP circuit. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, new to the Senate Armed Services Committee, flew in by executive jet, only to be waved away from Khe Sanh when Communist mortar fire suddenly thudded in. South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in his standard field getup-black flight suit, purple scarf and revolver-arrived to visit South Vietnamese marines. "I tried to visit Laos myself," he later told reporters. "But I was told it was much too dangerous...
TROUBLED by the slow pace of ARVN's thrust into Laos, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu made a painful decision early last week. He would have to put a new man in charge. At 7 one morning, he summoned Lieut. General Do Cao Tri, 41, his nation's most decorated and best-known soldier, to the presidential palace in Saigon. Then he told Tri that the job was his. The two men briefly discussed precisely how and when Tri would take over command of Lam Son 719 from I Corps commander Lieut. General Hoang...
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu's suggestion that it was "only a matter of time" before ARVN troops would drive north of the DMZ was designed to frighten Hanoi into keeping its reserve troops in place. But Hanoi's warning that such a thrust would bring China into the war seems to have ended threats of an invasion of North Viet Nam-a contingency that the U.S. would endorse only if the Lam Son forces were near annihilation...
...them split the profit when the pig was sold. But his style of living was so lavish that suspicions of corruption were continually raised against him, and in 1965, during a government investigation of his wealth, he attempted suicide. One of the sponsors of the inquiry was Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, then head of the air force. The two men became bitter enemies, and though they often saw each other at official functions after Tri resumed military command in 1967, they never shook hands...
...trip-led by YAF national chairman Ron Docksai-will swing through South Vietnamese-occupied territories in Cambodia and include visits with Thieu and Vice-President Nguyen Kao Ky. No Harvard students are members of the delegation...