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  • Saigon's encourage­ ment ot a large turn-out. Fraudulent counting and government lies combined to pad the results but the real tacts were apparent to the people. Instead ot the high figure claimed by Ky in the Western press, no more than 30 percent
  • Party victory and reinforced Labour's efforts to restrict Australian contribution to the war. During December, as the Ky Directorate and the newly elected Assembly sought to cope with mounting problems ot inflation, economic dislocation and an inept
  • · me who my heroes · are-. I h11ve only one-Hitler." These ore the .words of Air Vice­ Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, latest Prime M;nister of South Vietnam, whose remote, unsf able country . hos the whole world holding its breath. Tl,e comment
  • GBowdler:rln Thursday, June 2, 1966 10:55 A r. President: Ambas a or Lod _e w. s greatly encoura ed by his most recent tal with General Ky. l. Ky said he would h ndle Hue situa­ tion eo a.s t to undo hi nwritten agree• ment with the Buddhist le de r in S i
  • ability. 2. Thai expressed concern (and I believe he felt more strongly than he indicated) that the "other generals" would play a key, but not necessarily a useful, role in General Ky's "social revolution". Thai felt that it would have been better if "all
  • preoccupied with conspiracy 1 shifted from the new­ ly established constitutional government back to Air Marshal 'Ky and tight military ._controls. It was Wlenthusiastic about negotia't1ons. scenario projection advanced gaze time tc It confirmed wi their awal
  • have hailed e _a ch change in government in South Viet-Nam as a "good change;" each new leader as better than his predecessor. Pearson says McNamara's statement that the Ky-Buddhist rivalry is healthy was "naive and riduculous and an example