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While he was preoccupied with preparations for the Manila Conference and playing host to U.S. Defense Secretary McNamara, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky last week found himself faced with a major Cabinet crisis...
...uprooted northerners most of the top positions in his government. The birthplace of Cabinet ministers makes little difference to most Vietnamese, but the southerners in the regime resent the powers and patronage that the northerners enjoy. The feud came to a head in the Health Ministry, where Deputy Minister Nguyen Tan Loc, a native of the south's Mekong River Delta, decided to right the balance...
While his northern boss was out of town, Loc fired northern doctors from comfortable Saigon jobs, transferred them to clinics in the interior and gave their places to his southern friends. He did not get away with it. On the orders of National Police Commander General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a northerner, Loc was arrested, and the battle was on. Infuriated at such highhanded treatment, the southern Cabinet ministers demanded that Ky fire his police chief. Ky refused, but attempted to mollify the southerners by accepting the resignation of Health Minister Nguyen Ba Kha. In response, seven of the 26 members...
...newly elected delegates to the National Constituent Assembly solemnly strode into Saigon's freshly whitewashed onetime opera house. They were there to start the tedious task of building a nation out of the shards of war. Starched and spotless in his white dress uniform, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky solemnly listened to the strains of the Vietnamese national an them, then declared: "I wish you success and a constitution that will open an era democratic, progressive and prosperous for all the people." Nguyen Baluong, 65, the senior delegate and presiding officer for the Assembly's opening session, spoke...
...Korean Model. The 20-member bloc of officers elected as delegates was being courted by such civilians as Publisher-Physician Dang Van Sung, 51, who hopes to drive a wedge between Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and his uniformed delegates. "They want to be civilians," said Sung of the military Assemblymen. "That's why they ran." In the headquarters of the ruling directorate of generals, five separate constitutional drafts were circulating; and the generals themselves were busy choosing sides for the presidential power struggle that lies ahead once a constitution is written. Ky and his chief of state Thieu were...