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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...
Seized Spark. It was, in fact, the dismissal of a member of this ten-man Directory that precipitated the crisis. In a bold bid to strengthen the national government and with the near-unanimous support of the Directory, Premier Ky on March 10 sacked Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the canny and insubordinate warlord of the five northernmost provinces that comprise the I Corps. Though Thi had carefully cultivated the Buddhists in his domain, notably ambitious, extremist Thich Tri Quang of Hué, Ky reportedly had Tri Quang's approval for Thi's removal. When some...
Danang, headquarters for 20,000 U.S. Marines and a major airbase, was hardly in Communist hands, although demonstrators had taken over the radio station and some government buildings, on occasion assisted by Thi's Vietnamese troops. The U.S., which had tried to stay out of the swelling crisis, even to the point of ordering U.S. troops to stay off the streets of Danang and Saigon, suddenly found itself forced to take sides. To "liberate" Danang, Ky needed U.S. planes to move his troops. Next day he got them: six U.S. C-130s, provided on the direct order of Ambassador...
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...