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...Harvard-trained Economist Nguyen Xuan Oanh ("Jack Owen") seven months later. Oanh had six days in office before Khanh bounced back in through the revolving door. Khanh gave way again, to Saigon Mayor Tran Van Huong, then whipped back in for a third-time rule of one month. Dr. Phan Huy Quat and his "Medicine Cabinet" had a final, halfhearted try at civilian rule before asking Ky and the generals to take over ten months...
...place where politics is an obsession and proud factionalism the overarching fact of life. Under the French, the people of Hué mounted some sort of rebellious trouble at least once a year. More recently, the agitations that ultimately toppled Diem, then General Khanh, then Chief of State Phan Khac Suu, all began in Hué and rippled southward to Saigon like an infection. And for the last month, the waves of political unrest aimed at swamping Premier Nguyen Cao Ky have been rolling out of Hué in measured but ominously mounting intensity across Viet...
...from the older generation, Khanh seemed to the young Turks lacking in the flexibility and idealism that South Viet Nam's social revolution required. Partly out of ambition, partly out of impatience, the younger officers themselves turned Khanh out, replaced him with a civilian physician and moderate, Dr. Phan Huy Quat, and his "medicine Cabinet." The officers genuinely wanted Quat's civilian government to work so that they could concentrate on prosecuting the war. But without a firm hand, all the old religious and fractional rivalries erupted anew. Quat asked the generals to take over, and reluctantly they...
...Look at It Now." Last week alone, the 10,000 men of the 18th Engineer Brigade were building a 10,000-ft. jet-fighter strip at Phan Rang, a floating dock that will double the capacity of the Qui Nhon harbor, a communications facility and a 60-bed hospital for the 1st Air Cavalry at An Khe, a 250,000-sq.-yd. ammunition dump at Long Binh, and fortifications and housing at Cu Chi for newly arrived troops of the 25th Division. In one recent seven-day period, the men of the 18th worked 161,923 man-hours, hauling...
...when it did not. There were leeches and lice, poisonous vipers and venereal diseases, dengue, and a virulent strain of malaria that has defied preventives and resists cure. Temperatures hit 130° on the sandy beaches, 20° in the mountains. In the water-filled bunkers of Danang and Phan Rang, marines and paratroopers wrapped themselves in rubberized ponchos to grab a few hours' soaked sleep. In the endless paddyfields, men on long patrols came down with agonizing foot sores from polluted ooze...