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Arrival & Departure. For the moment, Chief of State Minh was busy with the problems of a chaotic country. A Buddhist but eager to demonstrate his religious neutrality, he ceremonially greeted Saigon's Roman Catholic Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh on his return from Rome, also dispatched a helicopter to bring home Le Thanh Tat, chief of the eccentric Cao Dai politico-religious sect, who had been exiled in Cambodia.* The air carried an unmistakable tang of political fever. Repeatedly Big Minh assured visitors of his hope to hold elections "if possible" in six to twelve months...
...with independence only two years away, Minh transferred to the newly formed Vietnamese army with the grade of major. After a stint of advanced study at Paris' general staff school, he returned and, following Diem's installation in 1955, launched his guerrilla-style campaign against the Binh Xuyen bandits. He also helped Diem in his campaign to subdue two fanatic, rebellious religious sects, the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai. After a second training tour abroad-this one at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, where he picked up serviceable English-Minh...
...anarchy. The economy was in shreds, and there was no functioning executive or administrative machinery to run the government. The army was run by a French puppet, General Nguyen Van Hinh, who was constantly plotting against Diem, and the police and security forces were controlled by the notorious Binh Xuyen river pirates, who had bought the "concession" from puppet Emperor Bao Dai for $1,000,000. In the countryside, two religious sects with well-armed private armies, the Cao Dai and the Hoa Hao, ran two virtually independent fiefs...
...face of superior odds, hers was the first?and for a long time the only ?voice to demand a showdown with the government's foes. She called her own husband "cowardly" for recommending a compromise with the Binh Xuyen gangsters. Once, arranging a demonstration against them, she was surrounded by a hostile crowd of Binh Xuyen. She jumped into her car, cried, "Arrest me, if you can!" and drove straight through the ring of tommy-gun-toting toughs. Finally, the family shipped her out to a convent in Hong Kong to keep her quiet during a period of attempted...
...Communist Viet Cong. Taylor, who takes over as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff next month, last visited Viet Nam a year ago; from that trip came the stepped-up program of U.S. military and economic aid to the embattled nation. Last week, in talks with President Ngo Binh Diem and General Paul Harkins, boss of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, hardbitten Maxwell Taylor sought to assess the results. His conclusion: "We are making progress...