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...flatly refused to go along with their demands that his security chief be fired-though he did agree to issue a public reprimand to Loan for last month's incident. This was not enough to placate the angry Southerners. Their prime mover last week was Economics Minister Au Truong Thanh, 41, who flew into Saigon from Washington with fury blazing behind his tinted bifocals. In a private session with Ky, he once again demanded Loan's dismissal. Otherwise, Thanh would not accompany Ky to Manila. "So you want to leave?" Ky asked quietly. "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Maneuvers Before Manila | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...highhanded treatment, the southern Cabinet ministers demanded that Ky fire his police chief. Ky refused, but attempted to mollify the southerners by accepting the resignation of Health Minister Nguyen Ba Kha. In response, seven of the 26 members of Ky's Cabinet resigned-including able Finance Minister Au Truong Thanh, who was in the middle of a government mission to Washington and had to cable his resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Cabinet Crisis | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Conventional hospital heart machines weigh as much as 1,000 lbs., but the new portable pump, developed by Baylor's Dr. Arthur C. Beall Jr., fits into a suitcase, weighs little more than 50 lbs., and can operate on batteries. In bed, little Phan Thi Truong pointed happily to her chest, saying again and again "Numbah One"-thanks both to the surgeon's skill and to an ingenious mechanical Numbah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Ticker Triumphs | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...Viet Nam on the U.S. Navy hospital ship Repose, a 16-year-old Vietnamese girl named Phan Thi Truong, a victim of rheumatic fever damage, rested easily after delicate surgery during which a new portable heart-lung machine was used for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Ticker Triumphs | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...hovercraft. Along the coast, patrol boats of the Navy's Operation Market Time have cut down on Communist gunrunning. As elsewhere, it will be difficult to separate friend from foe-demonstrated last week when U.S. Air Force jets strafed and bombed a Delta hamlet near the village of Truong Trung (see map), killing 24 inhabitants and wounding 82, among them women and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: And Now the Delta | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

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