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...member of this ten-man Directory that precipitated the crisis. In a bold bid to strengthen the national government and with the near-unanimous support of the Directory, Premier Ky on March 10 sacked Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the canny and insubordinate warlord of the five northernmost provinces that comprise the I Corps. Though Thi had carefully cultivated the Buddhists in his domain, notably ambitious, extremist Thich Tri Quang of Hué, Ky reportedly had Tri Quang's approval for Thi's removal. When some of the I Corps officers and men in Danang began agitating...
...even some uniformed soldiers demanding "Down with [Chief of State] Thieu and Ky" in 12-ft. banners. A two-day general strike was called for civil service employees -and like others in recent weeks, was happily honored by the citizens of Hué. Indeed, Hué and the five northernmost provinces of the 1 Corps, in which it is the principal city, are virtually under the control of militant Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang and the Hué students. Though Ky's government remained in control in Saigon, the Hué infection was all too evident...
...heaviest fighting occurred in the I Corps sector abutting the 17th parallel in the northernmost provinces, where the Reds, having apparently abandoned hopes of slicing South Viet Nam in two at the Central Highlands, are now concentrating their efforts. In Operation Texas, six battalions of allied forces dashed to the aid of a beleaguered outpost at An Hao, then found themselves tangling with four battalions of hardcore Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. In five days they wiped out 485 of the attackers and crippled the unit as a fighting force...
...greatest threat to the fragile stability of the Saigon government has been mustached, mercurial Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi (pronounced tea). Vain, ambitious, an inveterate intriguer, Thi carefully cultivated the political Buddhists, got his own man installed as head of the national police. As field commander of the northernmost I Corps, he ran it like a warlord of yore, obeying those edicts of the central government that suited him and blithely disregarding the rest...
Hardware in the Sky. Even with the added punch of the U.S. jets, things looked grim in the six northernmost provinces. Steady infiltration from North Viet Nam (see following story) gave the Viet Cong parity in both arms and men with the government's 20,000-man I Corps...