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Premier Nguyen Cao Ky moved last week to cool the month-old simmering crisis in his Cabinet. The feud was sparked by the Cabinet's southerners, who resent the fact that most of the top jobs in Saigon and within the government and army are held by North Vietnamese-born refugees from Communism like Ky himself. Skillfully de-escalating the crisis, Ky used earnest pleas for unity to placate most of the seven Cabinet ministers who originally petitioned him to resign. In the end, only four finally left the Cabinet...
While it is sad enough that there are students in the college who resent the expression of dramatic dissent, it is even sadder that these same students were given positions of power by the Administration -- positions that they were able to use to annoy, harass...
...other hand, many senior associates are afraid to take a strong initiative because freshmen might resent them as meddlers...
...Resent Meddling...
...North Vietnamese anti-Communists who emigrated to the south when the nation was divided in 1954, has given uprooted northerners most of the top positions in his government. The birthplace of Cabinet ministers makes little difference to most Vietnamese, but the southerners in the regime resent the powers and patronage that the northerners enjoy. The feud came to a head in the Health Ministry, where Deputy Minister Nguyen Tan Loc, a native of the south's Mekong River Delta, decided to right the balance...