Word: nguyens
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...gleaming black hair is no longer neatly combed back. The mustache has been trimmed. Gone is the dashing Captain Midnight look: tailored black flying suit, violet scarf, pearl-handled .38 revolver. At 37, the Vice President of South Vietnam, Nguyen Cao Ky, has taken to wearing bulky Mao-style suits -and the baggy new look is in keeping with both his sagging political fortunes and his efforts to fashion a new political image...
...change in Ky has come swiftly and dramatically, partly the result of accident, partly of the kind of political intrigue with which Viet Nam seems to abound. Before the Communist Tet offensive, Ky was much more than a ceremonial Vice President alongside his rival, President Nguyen Van Thieu. Liked by American officials in Viet Nam, who admired his charm, his boundless energy and his decisiveness, Ky retained powerful friends in the Vietnamese armed forces-an entourage rated strong enough to overthrow Thieu if it ever came to a showdown. But with Tet and the harrowing onslaught against the Saigon government...
...Thieu overtones. "If the Americans want to withdraw, they can go ahead," he told Vietnamese soldiers in Saigon. "We only want people who want to stay." On another occasion he asked his audience: "Why has South Viet Nam not been able to produce a Ho Chi Minh or Vo Nguyen Giap whom the world admires and respects? Why have we been unable to produce such people? Isn't it because our leaders are merely a bunch of servile and corrupt officials...
...toll of American dead rose to 24,364, support for the war shriveled inside the U.S. The influx of G.I.s Americanized the war, and Westy was too busy to engage in the labyrinthine stratagems needed to galvanize the Vietnamese into an effective defense of their own country. Vo Nguyen Giap, Westmoreland's opponent in Hanoi, was able to match every American move, pouring well-armed North Vietnamese troopers into the caldron below the Demilitarized Zone until they now account for better than 70% of the Communists' hard core troops. While South Vietnamese celebrated Tet, the lunar new year...
...face-saving way of conceding that its troops are fighting in South Viet Nam-an admission that the U.S. says is essential to any discussion of further reductions in its bombing of the North? In the clearest statement yet of the part played by the Northern forces, General Vo Nguyen Giap, their commander, said in a broadcast from Hanoi: "The Army of Liberation and our people are fighting on all battlefields, from Ca Mau near the southern tip of South Viet Nam to Route 9 south of the Demilitarized Zone." Earlier in the week, however, France...