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363-07579 to 363-07583
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Title
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Article about Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ's military regime
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Description
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Keever's title: "Prime Minister Ky impailed 50 days after President Johnson embarrassed him in Honolulu", article about Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ's military regime, for the New York Herald Tribune
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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(Morgan Gandy)
SAIGON, 09220, (UPIS)--The American government is drifting
towards global embarrassment as the military regime of
Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky appeared to be virtually finished.
The immée immediate, short-term question in Saigon tonight
was whether the flamboyant Air Force general would be phased
out in an orderly transition of power to an interim civilian
government-or whether he would be toppled from
by the
violence of chaotic, bloody demonstrations and street mobs, or
even his own dissident military troops.
"Everyone knows the Ky regime iis dead," one well-informed
Vietnamese political source explained.
caretaker government.
"It's my
momixhabacaximum at best aye brief
It's only aye question of how much
time it takes to bury it--and which politicians grab the corpse. "
(Note to Editor: this assessment made after talking with
Vietnamese and American government officials x as well as
Vietnamese opposition groupings).
(More-Miller-BD)
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I
first add--morgan gandy--saigon
x x x opposition groupings x =
Western diplomatic sources tonight presented this assessment:
"Ky's chances
of survival are very thin
if you talk his re-asserting government authority boldly
and firmly.
His chances of staying in office as aye hollow
shell are slightly better, but still the odds are worse than
fifty-fif fifty."
American Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge held an emergency
Saturday
aye hurriedly-arranged meeting with Prime Minister
Ky this afternoon, at the request of the Ambassador, according
to Vietnamese government sources. Later, Lodge's special
assistant,, retired air force general edward lansdale, met
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2
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privately with Ky, these sources said. Total at length of
these two session with sessions between the high-ranking American
officians officials and the Prime Minister was roughly
three hours. After that, these sources said Ky
was smiling
as he boarded his special helicopter at his downtown office
to carry him to his residence at the military s1 Saigon's
military airbase.
(More-Miller--BD)
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second add-morgan gandy--saigon
x x x military airbase x x x.
American sources here are barely worried about the
LYNDO
international blackeye themionusux President/Johnson will be
given if Ky would fall. Only fifty days ago, Pree President
Johnson soundly embraced Prime Minister Ky at the Honolulu Conference.
here is
The far more serious question in the minds of Americans
एन्
what kind of new government will emerge with which
UNITED STATES
the American political and military officials here will have to
work--and whether the war anti-Communist war can ever be effectively
prosecuted again.
Some of the militant Buddhist leaders are known to want
PEACE OR VIETNAM,
but probably would notrptnot
ask for the immediate withdrawal of American troops
Buddhist sources indicate.
"If there is an 'end-the-war government that comes
into power,"
one diplomatic source explained,
" "it puts
the Americans on aye store slope whayrim in which they
will notrp tnot know where the end is."
(More-Miller-ED)
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third add-morgan gandy-saigon
x x x end is x x x.
THO ST
These are the developments Saturday which lead reliable
political sources here to believe Ky's position was virtually
untenable:
1. The Vietnamese armed forces is randi rapidly fragmenting!
both in political unity as well as man military discipline.
Viot von
The
Vietnamese armed forces, while fighting the Vic-on Communist
Viet Cong on one front,
Ganznem juriam also
serves as the legal basis of the government, which is symbolized
in the governm governing ten-man junta.
Highly reliable Vietnamese sources indicated * Saturday
lover-ranking-
that Vietnamese unit commanders and service commanders were being
contacted to sign petitions asking for the resignation of Ky as well
as the military junta. Any sizable votes of non-confidence by the
low-ranking officers would serve to withdraw the legal mandate on
which the Ky regime rests.
Saturday,
Also to Ky's deputy prime minister--and minister for war--
General Nguyen Huu Co submitted his resignation from both the
cabinet and the military junta) Saturday, but it has yet to be
accepted, XX Vietnamese government sources revealed.
Ky
and Co disagreed about removing Vietnam two battalions of Vietnamese
Marines from the Danang airbase where they tore in turn
groups
protecting American Marines--and was the symbol of the Saigon government
presence in the dissident five northern provinces.
(More-Miller-ED)
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fourth add-morgan gandy--saigon
x x x northern provinces x x x
Saturday, Ky also appointed aye new corps commander to the
rebel hotspot. Just aye month ago, the ouster of the commander of
that corps General Nguyen R Chanh Thi, lead to
To spiralling political turbulence and violence and instability.
Maintain
Thi's sus successor, at unable to keep order against the Buddhist-led
demonstrations, strikes and anti-government protests,
Saturday and replaced by General Ton That Dinh.
last week.
was removed
2. Prime Minister Ky was unable to re-assert government
authority in the x dissident first corps area in the face of what
would have been aye double bloody civil war with Vietnamese arty
WAS
Saturday
units fighting each other.
He notrptnot expected/to be able
to maintain order and central government authority in the face of
x increasing number of anti-government protests, and street
even in the capital city..
3. Militant Buddhist leaders significantly increased their
Saturday
anti-Ky protests today by announcing the formation of aye Buddhist
Estimate
Lay Formen Struggle Force, which diplomatic sources believe could
easily pour tweeft twenty five thousand population onto the streets
of Saigon to demand an interm interim civilian government.
"The Buttar x militant Buddhist demands are equal to
asking Ky for of unconditional surrender," one reliable source
explained. "It will take kumka
Stop
sxmann aye unified armed forces:
to maintain order to block the Buddhist protest marches. And the armed
WOTRPINO
forces is unified. There's notrptnot much that Ky can do."
(Endit-Miller-ED)
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Date
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1966, Apr. 9
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Vietnam (Republic)--Politics and government; Nguyễn, Cao Kỳ
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B188, F3
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Format
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dispatches
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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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Collector
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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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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
