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...Contrary to your implication, it wasn't Tricky Thieu or Big Minh [Aug. 30] but Henry Kissinger who splattered Vietnamese election egg over the face of America...
Slipping Strength. Why did Thieu suddenly decide to do without Ky as even a nominal opponent on the ballot? One reason could be found in the Lower House election returns. Thieu's obviously slipping strength might have encouraged Ky, whose general political stature is on the rise these days, to change his mind and mount an active campaign after...
...Thieu had an even more immediate reason for wanting to make certain that Ky would not be a candidate. Mostly because they feared that the military might eventually split along Thieu-Ky lines-with disastrous results for the countrya number of South Viet Nam's leading generals had been shaping a plan to force Ky back into the race, whether he wanted to run or not. The generals intended to put an ultimatum to Thieu and Ky: Unless Ky rejoined the campaign as an active candidate, they would halt all offensive operations against the Communists and retire their forces...
...told him that they would run only if the U.S. stepped in and bent the election in their favor; Minh noisily denied the story, accusing Bunker of "slander and insolence." For their part, Ky's aides said that the Vice President would go all out to destroy Thieu and "all his clique...
...once and future President Thieu, he moved apparently to forestall what the CIA-whose field reports have been consistently accurate in the past-at this stage estimated to be a 40% chance of a coup attempt in the coming months. He handed out promotions to 29 generals and admirals. He also decided to appoint Colonel Nguyen Khac Binh, head of South Viet Nam's CIA-like Central Intelligence Organization, to oversee the national police. Binh will thus have at his command 200,000 armed men, including, besides patrolmen and traffic cops, the much-feared secret police...