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...more time to indulge his hobby of smuggling contraband and opium. At the outbreak of World War II, he deserted the French and sold his talents to the seemingly more successful Japanese. By 1943 he had become powerful enough to organize his own private army, which he called the Binh Xuyen and rented out to the side-French, Japanese or Communist-that seemed to be ahead at the moment...
Whether or not the robbers were mere French second-story men or furtive Binh-Xuyen agents bent on some dark political mission, no one could say, and General Le Van Vien declined to guess. "I don't suspect anyone," he told the bewildered police blandly. "I didn't think there was anyone who disliked...
...country to the other, by day or night, with never a worry about Viet Minh bandits. At night, villages that once huddled fearfully in the darkness are brightly lighted, with no fear of a grenade lobbing out of the shadows. In Saigon the exquisite bordellos run by the sinister Binh Xuyen sect were gone. But a new restaurant offered excellent French food, and a more conventional nightclub did a roaring business. The expensive perfume and lingerie shops that catered to rich French colonists and their ladies have been replaced with more modest Vietnamese shops selling sewing machines. Even the French...
...last week, soon after dawn, civil guards crept up on a straw-roofed hut. Inside were Ba Cut and six of his top lieutenants. Ba Cut, his hair now grown down to his waist, surrendered meekly. With the Binh Xuyen destroyed, the Cao Daoists divided, and Hoa Hao's Ba Cut captured, Premier Diem had eliminated the last of the rebellious warlords in his young republic...
...outcome of the referendum. Ex-Emperor Bao Dai lives near Cannes on the French Riviera with his family and various European mistresses. From there, often with French concurrence, he has done everything he could do to subvert and destroy the struggling government of Premier Diem. In April, when the Binh Xuyen bandit army tried to grab Saigon, Bao Dai tried to fire Diem. Instead, Diem fought the Binh Xuyen back to the marshes of the Mekong River. Last summer Bao Dai directed an anti-Diem offensive by troops of the Hoa Hao sect, but Diem's troops scattered them...