PRG Trashes Ky

Saigon (ZNS)—Remember Nguyen Cao Ky, former Air Marshall and one-time ruler of South Vietnam?

Well, he came out of political obscurity and back into the news recently, though he probably wishes he hadn't. He ran into a little difficulty with the PRG revolutionaries.

Ky had been living like a landed gentleman on a 30,000 acre estate in the Vietnamese Central Highlands, assisted by the Saigon Government which was nice enough to give him a helicopter and a couple of light planes to help things out on the farm.

Last week however, he suffered a slight reverse, the PRG burned his luxurious plantation house to the ground. Not, apparently because of his past, but because the former dictator has refused to pay his property taxes to PRG groups operating in his neighbour hood.