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...slaughter in central Annam following Emperor Bao Dai's surrender to the Communists back in 1945, Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Khoi and his eldest son were dragged out of their home and whisked away in a green Citroen to be shot near the village of Co Bi in the high, jagged mountains of the Chaine Annamatique. "I remember my brother Khoi," says Diem, who fled into hiding at the time. "He was the brightest son of our family of twelve, a tall, handsome man. The welfare of the people was his life's work...
...nine years after Khoi's murder, the village of Co Bi remained under Communist control, making it impossible for members of the Roman Catholic Ngo family to find their relative's body. When at last the Reds were driven out, the local peasants were too afraid to talk. One ancient sampan man confessed that he had heard the shots and described the area where the murder had taken place. He promptly disappeared. An old ex-Communist surrendered to Diem's forces and admitted his son had taken part in the kidnaping, but the son had fled...
Last month a sick villager of Co Bi went to the scene of the digging and told the authorities: "I have tuberculosis, and I'm going to die. Now I can tell the truth." Showing how the stream of the irrigation ditch into which Khoi's body was dumped had changed its course, he pointed out the real grave. Twelve feet deep, the diggers found the bodies of Khoi and his son, easily identified by a set of gold teeth and a belt buckle...
Under Scher's proposed system, the new foods committee would be directly responsible to the Council. In addition to examining food quality, preparation, and purchase, the three-man group would make bi-weekly progress reports, preparatory to a full-length report to the Council and student body...
...direction, causing a few editors to grow disgruntled. The magazine's rabid interest in reform drove some of its more flippant members to form the Lampoon in 1871, leaving the Advocate more of a newspaper than anything else. In 1873, however, the CRIMSON appeared as a rival bi-weekly newspaper, and the Advocate board suddenly became more interested in the arts...