Nguyen Cao Ky fled Vietnam nearly 29 years ago as his nation collapsed, piloting a helicopter out to sea where he landed on a U.S. aircraft carrier. The former South Vietnamese premier and vice ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former air force general who ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist for two years during the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 80. Ky died at a ...

AT the height of his considerable power as wartime leader of South Vietnam in the mid-1960s, Nguyen Cao Ky projected an image of dashing military style. A helicopter pilot (he piloted himself to ...

The one man who knew how to defeat the communists in Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s and had the wherewithal to do so was Nguyen Cao Ky, the South Vietnamese Air Force general who was the unelected ...

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 ...

Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former air force general who ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist for two years during the Vietnam War, died Saturday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was 80. One of his ...