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Hunt, who admitted earlier to forging telegrams designed to link President Kennedy with the Diem assassination, said he had forged the cables only after finding large gaps in State Department records...
...director of the Kennedy Library yesterday debunked claims that researchers working on behalf of the Library had covered up the alleged role of President John F. Kennedy '40 in the 1963 murder of South Vietnamese President Ngo Vinh Diem...
...papers included 1) some of Hunt's reports on Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick Island, and 2) some fake State Department cables contrived by Hunt to implicate President John Kennedy in the 1963 assassination of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. All of this presumably could have been used against Teddy's candidacy if the Senator had run against Nixon...
...same time, the White House is trying to shore up the Lon Nol regime (see THE WORLD). But there are limits to U.S. intervention. The White House has no intention of repeating the kind of action that led to the bloody overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam. One possibility is a return to power of deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk. No one wants this more than Sihanouk, who just arrived back in Peking after a month-long visit to insurgent-held areas in Cambodia, where he tried to drum up support among the various factions...
...question now is whether the Cambodian regime can survive until the shooting is somehow stopped. Washington officials frankly worry about the similarity between Cambodia today and South Viet Nam in the early 1960s. Saigon was then ruled by the aloof and autocratic Ngo Dinh Diem and his ambitious younger brother Ngo Dinh Nhu; they were toppled in a 1963 coup that had active U.S. encouragement. Cambodia has the somewhat mystical Lon Nol, paralyzed on his left side as the result of a 1971 stroke, and his younger brother Lon Non, a vain and ruthless army general...