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...secret? In Hersh's book, it's Jack's long-rumored first marriage, the Mob contacts that helped him steal the 1960 election, and his history of health problems, including years of venereal disease. Then there was his real role in the murder of South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem and in CIA attempts to kill Fidel Castro--there's the Mob again--as well as his inflated victory over Nikita Khrushchev in the Cuban missile crisis. Mob leader Giancana was Bobby's first suspect in his brother's assassination, says Hersh. He knew the Mafia felt betrayed because Bobby...
Swinging to the other side of the globe, Hersh alleges that J.F.K. knew that South Vietnam's President, Ngo Dinh Diem, and his brother would be assassinated as a consequence of the Washington-approved coup that toppled Diem in 1963. Hersh's smoking gun is the fact that Kennedy summoned former Air Force General Edward G. Lansdale, an ex-CIA operative who had been involved in the U.S. assassination plots against Castro, and asked if he would go to Saigon and help "get rid" of Diem. Lansdale says he turned down the President's invitation. Was Kennedy making a thinly...
...Western--and the Communist--role in the fate of Asia... It was only 18 months ago that a 73-year-old Buddhist monk...sat down in...a Saigon street and...calmly set himself afire with a cigarette lighter to dramatize Buddhist opposition to the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem... At the time, the West had great sympathy for South Viet Nam's Buddhists. Now the atmosphere is different...
Might they have been hoping that the younger generation will realize better than they did that it must carpe diem and that NCAA Tournaments are precious and rare? Might they also have been hoping that Gudeman, Duffy and all of next year's recruits will use this wisdom to their advantage and reclaim the Ivy League Title for the lacrosse, soccer and field hockey teams...
...Communist troops drew closer to the South Vietnamese capital through early April, the atmosphere in both Saigon and Washington further darkened. Schools in Saigon and its suburbs conducted lessons and assigned homework as usual, but Nam Pham, then 18, and Diem Do, who was 12, noticed their classes getting smaller day by day. Says Do: "One day a couple of guys would be gone, and then a couple more, and then the teacher wouldn't show up. Everybody was scared. They sensed that something tragic was about to happen," and some were already fleeing the country...