Word: thies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nguyen Cao Ky and the other generals of the ruling Directory were also notably quiet, making no speeches and rarely appearing in public. Their only visible act last week was the dismissal of the head of the national police, an appointee of ousted Buddhist I Corps Commander Nguyen Chanh Thi, who was replaced by one of Ky's loyal Air Force colonels. The Directory's caution was probably well-advised. Coup rumors were even thicker than usual, and Viet Nam's Catholics showed signs that they may pick up the troublemaking where the Buddhists left...
Pitch & Tone. That force is one that he has largely hand-tooled himself, using it adroitly to control the pitch and tone of events ever since last March 10, when the Directory fired his friend and ally in the north of South Viet Nam, General Nguyen Chanh Thi, commander of the I Corps. Tri Quang had been looking for a pretext to move, and he found it in the dismissal of Thi, who was popular enough among Buddhists and his soldiers to provide an opening wedge of discontent. In a welling tide of violence, in which cars were burned, windows...
...hunt against former members of Diem's semisecret Can Lao, which nearly all civil servants and government officials had been obliged to join. Tri Quang's committees of national salvation, created for the purpose, mobbed suspected Can Laos and chased them from office. Then he and I Corps Commander Thi together replaced them, packing the provincial administrations in I Corps with men loyal to them...
...testing of Tri Quang may come sooner than that. At week's end 2,500 rioters, ignoring the Saigon accord, swept through Danang and publicly burned the Ky proclamation for elections. They demanded that the generals step down immediately. With ousted General Thi openly agreeing and much of I Corps in rebellion against Saigon's control, Thich Tri Quang prepared this week to fly back home as a "peace envoy" to Hué, where lies his chief strength. Whether as peace envoy or missionary of discontent, he will more and more bear on his slim and restless shoulders the welfare...
Fasten Seat Belts. Ky flew in his own plane to Danang, where he was met at the airport by Thi's successor, appointed by the junta, Major General Chuan. While Ky's marines set up tents near the airport, and demonstrators, aided by some 300 I Corps soldiers, haphazardly set up barricades and roadblocks on the airport road, Ky and Chuan had a tough private talk. The result was a compromise: Ky apologized for saying that Danang was ruled by Communists, but insisted-with good reason-that the Viet Cong had infiltrated the demonstrators. Chuan ordered posters...