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...never given up hope of a comeback. One of his problems was how to neutralize an old enemy, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh. Meanwhile, a group of younger second-echelon officers, inevitably known as the "Young Turks," were also spoiling for influence, and their targets were the five "Dalat generals," so nicknamed because of a period of arrest they had spent during 1964 in the mountain resort of Dalat. Released re cently, the five, according to the Young Turks, had been plotting with the rampant Buddhists. Fortnight ago the Turks demanded the retirement of all officers with 25 or more...
Elsewhere in the south the situation worsened considerably, and even the mountain resort area of Dalat, popular as a site for government crisis huddles, is now Communist-infested. Through out the country, not a day went by without a Communist attack of battalion size or larger. The Reds have scored their most alarming gains in the central provinces, as evidenced by last week's biggest clash: the battle of Anlao...
...authority in the countryside slips inexorably away, the government of South Viet Nam is running in tighter and tighter circles. Last August, when Premier Nguyen Khanh tried to assume full command of the government, the Buddhists rioted and sent him swerving madly to Dalat. Then, in September, when Khanh met Buddhist demands and relieved a number of Catholic generals of their commands, the Catholics staged a "coupette," which ended only when a group of young officers, led by Air Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky, came to Khanh's aid. Last week Ky's guys put their hands...
...abruptly as he had left, Nguyen Khanh boarded a plane in the resort town of Dalat and flew back to Saigon last week, drove to his office and resumed his work as Premier of South Viet Nam. His arrival passed almost unnoticed; there wasn't even a photographer at the airport. In view of the fact that Khanh had abandoned Saigon amid bloody riots only a week before, it all seemed slightly bewildering. But there was an explanation: U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor had simply put on his toughest pressure to reinstall the little general...
Aware that all this drifting anarchy could spell the end of the war effort through the rise of a "neutralist" regime, Taylor flew to Dalat to urge Khanh to reassert his already severely damaged authority. Khanh hemmed and hawed, protested to reporters that he was not mentally ill, as had been suggested, but admitted that he did suffer one malady: "I have hemorrhoids." Nevertheless, he finally agreed to return to the capital...