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363-04820.pdf
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363-04820
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Title
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Magnetic Thi Roils Viet Politics
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Description
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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about General Nguyễn Chánh Thi's position in South Vietnam as a unifier, despite his contraversies, page unknown
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Date
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1966, Mar. 13
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Subject
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Nguyễn, Chánh Thi, 1923-2007; Vietnam (Republic)--Politics and government
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Container
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B4, F6
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Format
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newspaper clippings
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
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extracted text
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Magnetic Thi Roils Viet Politics
By Beverly Deepe
A Special Correspondent
SAIGON.
Flamboyant
Maj.
Gen.
Nguyen Chanh Thi is a oneman symbol of the paradoxical
pitfalls and_i;>.athos ..of Viet'namese political intrigue.
The constant bubbling of
Franco-Oriental maneuvering
is considered a major obstacle
to effective American-South
Vietnamese opposition to the
Communists, who have the
best organized political mach1ne in the countryside.
Gen. · Thi was dismissed
Thursday from his command
of the five northern provinces,
where for the last two years ·he
ruled in warlord fashion. He
was dismissed by the nine
other generals of the military
junta who were barely rulin~
at all.
Gen. Thi was a sporadic
author of political instability
in Saigon, with an abortive
coup in 1960 and sev~ral
"palace coups" to his name.
Yet his dismissal is considered to be. only a prelude to
more instability (other military
leaders a.re ex:Jected to be
ousted) if not outright chaos
through student-civilian military committees now organizing demonstratons in · Gen.
Thi's ex-bailwick.
The 43-year-old Gen. Thi
was the strongest individual,
in ,terms of political popularity
· and appeal in the junta. But
he was not so strong as the
other nine collectively opposing him. Since Gen. Thi was
the first general to fall from
the junta in its nine-month
existence, his expulsion in-
dicated that committee leadership was no longer sacrednor even workable.
The ouster of Gen. Thieasily could spark political instability within Viet Nam on
at least three counts.;
- .,
4IIt means the junta is not
unified-which delights the
pro-neutralist civilian politicians, and obviously the
Communists.
(IIn the five northern provinces formerly commanded by
Gen. Thi, where nearly 4,000
American Marines are fighting, a whirlwind shift of Gen.
Thi's administrative personnel, province chiefs, and at
least one of the two division
commanders is expected. This
probably will set back the
Marines' pacification efforts.
([Followers of Gen. Thi in
Saigon and some of the commanders of the other three
corps areas may also be
shifted. Gen. Thi was considered to have previously had
the support of the National
Police director Col. Pham
Van Lieu, as well as some
division and ree:imental commanders near Saigon.
A slender bright spot in the
otherwise gloomy political
picture is that the executive
branch of the government
headed by Premier Ngvyen Cao
Cao Ky has .become stronger.
By breaking the power of
Gen Thi, the strongest, most
magnetic personality in the
10-man junta, the Saigon
regime is expected to find it
easier to handle weaker corps
commanders. Their alternativ~:
-Carry out orders from
Saigon efficiently-or face be-
ing expelled from the junta
and their position of power.
The fou'r corps commanders
and their subordinate division
commanders hold · the actual
basis of power in the country
-the raw power of guns.
They were once described
as being so independent from
Saigon that "Viet Nam has
four Vietnamese war lords
ruling the provinces-and
three American wariors where
three
American
warlords
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