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	Nguyen Cao Ky Summary
		Nguyen Cao Ky was born in Son Tay Province, northwest of Hanoi, in 1930.
		Ky proved to be a strong leader and was able to unite the military, thus ending the cycle of coups that plagued South Vietnam following the CIA led murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem.
		Ky intended to run, but at the last minute changed his mind and backed Thieu, a move he now calls "the biggest mistake of my life." Thieu nominated Ky as his running mate and the two were elected with 38% of the vote.
	www.bookrags.com /Nguyen_Cao_Ky (1053 words)

	AllRefer.com - Nguyen Cao Ky (Southeast Asia History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Nguyen Cao Ky[nuwin´ kou kE] Pronunciation Key, 1930–;, premier (1965–67) and vice president (1967–71) of the former Republic of South Vietnam.
		Ky's involvement in President Diem's overthrow (1963) led to his appointment to the air force command.
		Following a military coup led by Nguyen Van Thieu in 1965, Ky became premier, and was Thieu's vice-presidential running mate in the 1967 election.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Ky-Nguye.html (246 words)

	Nguyen Cao Ky
		Nguyen Cao Ky Nguyen Cao Ky Nguyen Cao Ky, born 1930, is a Vietnamese politician, who served as Prime Minister of South Vietnam from 1965 to 1967, and then Vice President until his retirement from politics in 1971.
		Ky's primary agenda while in power was to eliminate the massive levels of corruption that had existed in all levels of Vietnamese society, especially government and the military.
		Ky´s withdrawal from the race left Thieu as the sole candidate for the elections: According to some sources, the "sham elections" of 1971 was the main reason why many -- including US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger -- lost any remaining illusions that credible democratic institutions could be established in South Vietnam.
	www.vietnamwar.net /Ky.htm (618 words)

	Nguyen Cao Ky - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nguyen Cao Ky, left, meets with a high school classmate on Monday, January 26, 2004, during a reunion in Hanoi, Vietnam.
		Nguyen Cao Ky, former president of South Vietnam, visits the Catholic Cathedral in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 with his wife.
		Nguyen Cao Ky, former president of South Vietnam and his wife, Kim Nicole Le, visit the Catholic Cathedral in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Tuesday, January 27, 2004.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Ky-Nguye.html (570 words)

	Nguyen Cao Ky - Definition, explanation
		Nguyen Cao Ky (Nguyễn Cao Kỳ) (born 1930) is a Vietnamese politician, who served as Prime Minister of South Vietnam from 1965 to 1967, and then Vice President until his retirement from politics in 1971.
		Ky´s withdrawal from the race left Thieu as the sole candidate for the elections: According to some sources, the "sham elections" of 1971 was the main reason why many - including US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger - lost any remaining illusions that credible democratic institutions could be established in South Vietnam.
		Ky's daughter, Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen (Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên), is a well-known personality in the overseas Vietnamese entertainment industry.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/ng/nguyen_cao_ky.php (763 words)

	Nguyen Cao Ky (1930- )- Commander of the Air Force of Repulic of Vietnam; Prime Minster of Republic of Vietnam, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nguyen Cao Ky(1930-), was the second Prime Minster during the Vietnam War following Diem.
		Ky was trained by the French as a pilot held series of commands in the South Vietnamese air force.
		Ky seeked to oppose Thieu in the 1971 election but failed and retired from polics.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0129380/people/nguyen_cao_ky.html (121 words)

	Buddha's Child Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ky says his plan to lead an invasion of North Vietnam in 1966, which "would have ended the war," was squelched by timid Johnson administration officials.
		Ky claims that the reason he gave his blessing to Thieu to become president "remains a great mystery, even to me." That mystery led to Ky's political downfall and to eight years of a corrupt, ineffectual Thieu-led South Vietnamese regime.
		Ky's task was to unite a country riven by political, ethnic, and religious factions and undermined by corruption.
	home.comcast.net /~marvinjwolf/reviews.htm (1001 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Saigon Days
		Ky has mainly produced a score-settling book of the first order, published after most of his adversaries and interlocutors have died, and based on claims and memories that are hard to check today.
		Ky claims it was a spontaneous decision -- "in the space of a single heartbeat, the words flew from my heart to my tongue" -- that he cannot explain even today.
		Much of Ky's new memoir -- its title is drawn from his belief that Buddha has kept him from harm for all of his 72 years -- is in many ways a rehash of a hastily written version published in 1976.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A33975-2002Aug1?language=printer (747 words)

	washingtonpost.com: An Old Vietnamese Soldier Returns
		HO CHI MINH CITY -- Nguyen Cao Ky, former general and prime minister of South Vietnam, settled in with a glass of Bordeaux at dinner on a cobblestone terrace on the banks of the Saigon River, gazing at the city's illuminated skyline and its reflection shimmering in the dark waters.
		Ky flew out of Saigon one day before it fell to Communist forces in April 1975, landing his Huey helicopter on the deck of the USS Midway.
		Ky's trip, which he paid for, has taken him the length of the country, from places of his boyhood to new development zones, mountain temples and beaches.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A49576-2004Feb17?language=printer (991 words)

	Vietnamese Singer Biography - Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen
		Although Ky Duyen is the only one in her family who is in show business, she claimed that there are others who have musical talents in her family, yet they chose not to pursue this career.
		Ky Duyen responded, "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong is among one of her many favorites because of its positive inspiration.
		Ky Duyen's likes to perform in Las Vegas the most, as it's close to home, and she can take her family for a mini-vacation so they can fun in the casinos while she works.
	www.vietscape.com /music/singers/ky_duyen/biography.html (514 words)

	Thanhnien News
		Ky was once bitten by the bulldog, and infuriated he reportedly told his uncle, Mr.
		The acquisition of Nguyen Cao Ky’s bulldog, in his words, was one of his most memorable stories.
		He then sold it to Nguyen The Hung, son of an affluent jeweler, for 400,000 VND which was equivalent to 200 taels of gold and decided to give Mr.
	www.thanhniennews.com /print.php?catid=10&newsid=1551 (831 words)

	Buddha's Child by Cao Ky Nguyen
		Ky tells a story that has been missing from the Vietnam era dialogue, the veiw of a Vietnamese leader.
		The war is the backdrop but Ky attempts to paint a more wholistic picture based on his view that military action without social progess could never succeed.
		In the end Ky suggests that his personal effectiveness as a leader was hivng an effect on the overall preformance eof South Vietnam as country.
	www.adoptvietnam.org /books/bkbuddhaschild.htm (279 words)

	Nguyen Cao Ky - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Nguyen Cao Ky was the Prime Minister of South Vietnam for three years, until he wrote himself out of office by penning his nation's first constitution.
		Those Viet Kieus are exercising their rights to free speech, and they're saying "fvck you" to Nguyen Cao Ky. If they're trying to suppress his rights, then I would agree with you, but the majority are protesting his actions, not trying to take his freedom, and hence, they're taking advantage of democracy.
		Nguyen Cao Ky is not a public figure, nor has he been since the war ended.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=12936 (2299 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Nguyen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Nguyen kingdom in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
		The transfer of western military technology to Vietnam in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the case of the Nguyen.
		Nguyen's pain is just as strong, just not as widely viewed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Nguyen (874 words)

	Dissidents lash out at former South Vietnamese leader (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nguyen Thanh Giang, a geophysicist and pro-democracy campaigner under constant police surveillance, criticized Ky for his support of Hanoi's policy of pursuing economic development while maintaining tight control over dissent.
		Ky, on his symbolic return to Saigon, the city he fled on April 29, 1975, a day before it fell to North Vietnamese troops, said he wanted to help heal the scars of war that have divided the Vietnamese community for so long.
		Ky, who will celebrate this week's Lunar New Year festival of Tet with old friends and relatives, has hinted that he is considering a permanent return to Vietnam to live out his remaining years.
	www.fva.org /2004/Jan/story03.htm (542 words)

	Nguyen Cao Ky — FactMonster.com
		Ky's involvement in President Diem's overthrow (1963) led to his appointment to the air force command.
		Following a military coup led by Nguyen Van Thieu in 1965, Ky became premier, and was Thieu's vice-presidential running mate in the 1967 election.
		Nguyen Van Thieu - Thieu, Nguyen Van Thieu, Nguyen Van, 1924–2001, president of the former Republic of South...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0828445.html (221 words)

	Booknotes
		BRIAN LAMB, HOST: Nguyen Cao Ky, former prime minister of South Vietnam, author of "Buddha's Child," you say in your book that you were upset with the publisher of one of your previous books about what you didn't get in, or something, and you had to write this book.
		NGUYEN: Yes, but, you know - I was the very first, you know, pilot, you know, to work closely with the CIA, (UNITELLIGIBLE) at that time - to cross the border at night, to drop our, you know, special team in North Vietnam, back in 1961.
		Nguyen Cao Ky, the author, former Prime Minster of South Vietnam.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript/?ProgramID=1684 (5619 words)

	Editorial
		Major General Nguyen Cao Ky said he was "happy to be home again" in Seattle when he made an appearance at the Elliott Bay Book Company last Thursday.
		Ky, now 73, was born in North Vietnam in 1930.
		In June 1965, at age 35, Ky began a three-year term as the prime minister of the former Republic of Vietnam.
	www.nwasianweekly.com /editorial/nguyen.htm (550 words)

	Libri.de - Nguyen Cao Ky, Marvin J. Wolf: Buddha's Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam
		Even after 25 years in America, former South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky is regarded as a national hero by three million fellow expatriots.
		Ky will describe the Americans and their activities from the perspective of the Vietnamese patriot.
		Condemned by US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as "the absolute bottom of the barrel," Ky was not expected to survive a week in the office into which he was thrust.
	www.libri.de /shop/action/productDetails_artiId_2995123_nav_4765.html (241 words)

	Amazon.com: Buddha's Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam: Books: Nguyen Cao Ky,Marvin Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nguyen Cao Ky is a very good storyteller, and a man of adventure who liked to live on the edge.
		Ky said that such corrupt government officials should not be prosecuted and should be allow to keep all the money they have stolen from the people as long as these officials would not take bribes again.
		Ky failed to recognize that what he did during his youthful days was reckless and in a different setting such as the U.S, he would have been indicted on many charges.
	www.amazon.com /Buddhas-Child-Fight-Save-Vietnam/dp/0312281153 (3000 words)

	After three decades, an arch-enemy returns home - www.theage.com.au
		Nguyen Cao Ky, left, is reunited with his former wartime bodyguard, Ly Huynh, in Ho Chi Minh City this week.
		Mr Ky, 73, a former fighter pilot and air force commander, was prime minister of the US-backed state from 1965 to 1967, after a military coup, and then vice-president for four years.
		Mr Ky, who has regularly criticised the Vietnamese Government from his adopted home in California, said it was time to bury the past.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/01/15/1073877963057.html (505 words)

	Pacific News Service > News > Ex-Premier's Vietnam Trip: A Mistake for Both Bush and Hanoi
		This week, Nguyen Cao Ky, former prime minister and vice president of South Vietnam, is due to return to Southern California from his "peace mission" to communist Vietnam.
		In 1975, when North Vietnam Army divisions were tightening their knot around Saigon, Ky loudly proclaimed that he would stay and fight until the "last drop of his blood." Then he unceremoniously flew his helicopter to the U.S. 7th Fleet to evade the approaching communist army.
		Ky's safety, using very vulgar words and preventing his daughter Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen from from being an MC.
	news.pacificnews.org /news/view_article.html?article_id=61c909e4857e141738044655f9971ad7 (2430 words)

	Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen (Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên), was born on June 30, 19--, in Saigon, Republic of Vietnam.
		Her father is former Prime Minister/Vice President/General Nguyen Cao Ky. Ky Duyen grew up in Fairfax, Virginia and the family moved to Huntington Beach, California and she graduated from Marian High School and she eventually graduated from Law School.
		Ky Duyen first learned to play the piano at the age of five and in her teens she studied music and music theory as well as voice training.
	www.vietonly.com /Celebrities/VietnameseSingers/KyDuyen.htm (168 words)

	Nguyen Cao Ky
		Nguyen Cao Ky Nguyen Cao Ky was a young officer when he took part on the coup that led to Diem's demise.
		In 1971, Ky again challenged Thieu on the elections, but was forced to withdraw his candidacy.
		Ky, Thieu and the other young officers that ousted Khanh were increasingly upset with the U.S. Ambassador, General Maxwell Taylor.
	www.vietnam-war.info /figures/nguyen_cao_ky.php (279 words)

	Prime Minister Ky and other SVN leaders
		Prime Minister of SVN, Major General Nguyen Cao Ky This bloke, who looked and acted like a jumped up sleazy dancing master in a poor quality whore-house did more to destroy the belief of average Australians that the regime in South Viet Nam deserved backing than any other person in the world.
		Nguyen Cao Ky was a young officer when he took part on the coup that led to Diem's demise.
		Nguyen Van Thieu, born April 5, 1923, was president of South Vietnam from 1967 until it was overrun by North Vietnamese armed forces in 1975.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-leaders/south-vietnam.htm (829 words)

	Do Cao Tri/Nguyen Viet Thanh
		In the post-Tet shakedown of the ARVN officer corps- part anticorruption campaign, part political maneuver by President Thieu to remove officers loyal to Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky- Generals Tri and Thanh received command of the two densely populated and politically sensitive southern corps tactical zones.
		Though rated best of the three divisions in IV Corps, the 7th Division, from which General Thanh was promoted, was unable to shake the reputation it had picked up as the "Search and Avoid Division." The other IV Corps divisions, the 9th and the 21st performed no better.
		Having survived three assassination attempts, a mid-1960s exile at the instigation of Nguyen Cao Ky, and a barrage of corruption charges, Tri thrived on adversity.
	www.generalhieu.com /trithanh.htm (1226 words)

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