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Phantoms & Diplomats. Though Premier Nguyen Cao Ky promises to execute profiteers, he has yet to make good his threat-and bullets alone can hardly reverse Saigon's rising tide of corruption. A huge, incalculable bite from Washington's $1 billion foreign-aid program is taken each year by government and military officials. U.S. refrigerators and air conditioners meant for hospitals end up in generals' homes; troop commanders collect the "phantom pay" of soldiers whose deaths in combat go unreported to Saigon. For $675, a well-to-do youth can buy an Interior Ministry "diploma" that certifies...
Most brand-new Western governments these days talk bravely of a dramatic "first 100 days." In South Viet Nam, where few regimes hope to stay in power that long, new Premier Nguyen Cao Ky decided to divide his trial period by ten. In his supersonic first week, Fighter Pilot Ky (rhymes with wheel) got more done than any other Vietnamese leader has accomplished in the 20 months since Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated. In rapid succession, the Saigon government...
Phat, a onetime Saigon architect and, like Photographer Okamura, a Buddhist, insisted-for what it was worth-that he was a Socialist, not a Communist. He said that the Viet Cong had initially followed the guerrilla tactics of Nguyen Giap, the victor of Dienbien-phu, but "now Giap's lessons are outdated. Times have changed. American weapons are different. Now, except for tanks and planes, we have everything we need. Our weapons are as good as the enemy...
...primary mission is to fly close support for the army, and, operating in close cooperation with U.S. pilots, it has developed into Asia's second best air force (only Nationalist China's is better equipped and better trained) under the flamboyant leadership of Air Boss Nguyen Cao Ky, who regularly flies strikes in his Skyraider...
...Communists have special respect for Lieut. Commander Nguyen Thanh Chau, 32, and his 25th River Assault Group, a flotilla of gunboats headquartered at Cantho, 100 miles southwest of Saigon, but ranging through the whole delta. Born in the delta district, Chau knows every bridge, every bend in the waterways, every likely crossing point for Communist guerrillas. Chau prefers to conduct his fire fights with the Reds from the bridge of his command ship, a gunned-up LCM. "It's too hot below," says he, "and you can't see anything." Over the past year, Chau has lost only...