Guerillas Off Ky

Geurillas Off Ky

Do you remember Nguyen Cao Ky, the former Air Force Vice Marshal who ruled South Vietnam for awhile?

Well, Marshal Ky is back in the news again, after fading into near political obscurity. It seems that Marshal Ky ran into some difïiculty last week with the P.R.G. guerillas in South Vietnam.

Ky had been living like a landed gentleman on a very comfortable 30,000 acre plantation in the Vietnamese Central Highlands. To make life easier for Ky, the government had given him a helicopter, a piper cub, and occasionally even loaned him a Caribu Transport plane to carry machinery and other things to his spacious farm.

Then, last week, the guerillas struck: The P.R.G. burned Ky's handsome plantation bungalow to the ground. However. they didn't do it for political reasons: They did it because Ky refused to pay property taxes to the guerillas in the area.

--ZODIAC