South Viet Nam: The New Ky

Once there was a Vietnamese pilot-politician who wore a violet scarf with his jumpsuit, tossed off remarks about Hitler's good points, and generally seemed to make himself the personification of a great deal that is wrong in Saigon. Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky is no longer so psychedelic in speech and dress. Still, he is such an easy target for peace partisans in the U.S. that when he was invited to address a pro-war rally in Washington in October, the Nixon Administration deflected the pre-election visit. As consolation, Henry Kissinger promised Ky an official invitation later for a tour...

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