Word: phan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sponsored reception; Khanh sent regrets. Bundy finally did manage to spend an hour with Khanh. What they said to each other remains unknown, but Bundy emerged looking less than enthusiastic. He also met with Khanh's Acting Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Oanh and Chief of State Phan Khac...
...came as Premier Huong endeavored once again to put back together his Humpty-Dumpty regime. Last week Huong installed four military officers in his Cabinet in an effort to improve relations with the brass and discourage more coups. There was a slight delay. Although Huong and Chief of State Phan Khac Suu waited in the palace on the appointed day, the four failed to show up because Air Force Boss Nguyen Cao Ky had last-minute second thoughts about giving up his command for his Cabinet assignment-Minister of Youth and Sports. Finally Ky reluctantly agreed to it, and next...
...armed forces promised once again to yield power to civilians and to release five arrested members of the High National Council. Huong and Chief of State Phan Khac Suu agreed to convene a "national convention" as soon as possible to act as a legislature; in the meantime, the aging, feeble Suu would exercise "legislative powers." "The political crisis is considered ended," announced a communiqué, and the U.S. embassy cautiously welcomed the deal as "a promising step in the direction of . . . stable and effective government...
...working on the Young Turks, one of whom said of the Khanh-Turk relationship: "Each side is using the other. Later we shall see who wins." Still in the middle was what was left of the civilian government of Premier Tran Van Huong and aging, ceremonial Chief of State Phan Khac Suu. After a week of frightened silence, Huong and Suu came out with a communique urging a measure of good will on all sides to achieve "a fitting solution to escape from the present crisis...
Always on Sunday. Civilian Chief of State Phan Khac Suu, 63, whose signature was required to legalize the retirement ruling, buck-passed the matter to the High National Council. A civilian board set up after the anti-Khanh riots last August ostensibly to supervise the transition to constitutional rule, the council had been ridiculed as "the Na tional Museum"; it was divided, ineffectual, and more or less pro-Buddhist. The council refused to go along with the military's request...