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...whole process of evacuation was beset by such disturbing uncertainty. TAT TAT CA DEN, MAY LANH VA QUAT KHI RA VE, instructed the sign on the bowling-alley wall at evacuation headquarters: "Turn off the lights, air conditioners and fans when leaving." It was an eerie notion that here, in an abandoned American bowling alley that had become a makeshift waiting room for thousands of desperate South Vietnamese, the light at the end of the tunnel was about to be extinguished at last...
...they faced some sharp heckling at rallies. "You're just a playboy playing at politics," sneered a pretty young woman when Businessman Nguyen Dinh Quat rose to speak. An old farmer at a Delta rally challenged Dai Viet Party Leader Ha Thuc Ky: "We hear you have two big villas and an American limousine." The other Ky, Premier and vice-presidential candidate on the government ticket with Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, ventured into hostile Hue, where he had put down a simmering, Buddhist-led revolt last year...
Another declared civilian is Nguyen Dinh Quat, 49, a Saigon businessman and former plantation owner, who in 1961 had the courage-or misjudgment -to run against President Ngo Dinh Diem. His reward was to be dispossessed of all his property by the Diem regime. A Northerner, Quat is now thought to be interested less in the presidency than in being chosen as a stronger candidate's vice-presidential running mate. The third civilian is Ha Thuc Ky, 48, a forestry engineer and Hué businessman nominated by the Dai Vet Party, a small, ultranationalist grouping. No relation to Premier...
...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...
...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...