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...Phan Khac Suu, 61, the white-haired former Chief of State whose recalci trance brought down the last civilian government, ex-Premier Phan Huy Quat's "Medicine Cabinet" of 1965. A southerner with strong support in the populous Mekong Delta, Suu advocates a system of checks and balances between executive, legislature and a national Supreme Court...
...Tran Van Van, 58, a gaunt intriguer who is one of Viet Nam's wealthiest businessmen (Saigon real estate, Delta rice lands), is also an ally of Phan Khac Suu and was imprisoned by the Diem and Khanh regimes. Van is the potential leader of a 44-seat southern bloc in the new assembly...
Conventional hospital heart machines weigh as much as 1,000 lbs., but the new portable pump, developed by Baylor's Dr. Arthur C. Beall Jr., fits into a suitcase, weighs little more than 50 lbs., and can operate on batteries. In bed, little Phan Thi Truong pointed happily to her chest, saying again and again "Numbah One"-thanks both to the surgeon's skill and to an ingenious mechanical Numbah...
...Viet Nam on the U.S. Navy hospital ship Repose, a 16-year-old Vietnamese girl named Phan Thi Truong, a victim of rheumatic fever damage, rested easily after delicate surgery during which a new portable heart-lung machine was used for the first time...
Outside four olive-drab sheds, which will ultimately house army latrines, 1,100 Vietnamese construction workers at Phan Rang last week excitedly queued up to cast what were, for almost all of them, their first ballots. When the free, secret election was over, they had chosen a ten-person "workers' council" to deal with their employer, the U.S. construction combine, which is led by Morrison-Knudsen of Boise, Idaho, and known as RMK-BRJ.* Far from fighting the unionization, the combine sponsored it as one way to ease around a barrier it had not bargained for: labor unrest...