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...elemental nationhood. Already, 5,000 more cadremen are in training; by the end of the year hopefully 15,000 will be in the field. Some will be old hands at pacification retrained to bring new skill to their job. They are the manpower legacy of previous programs, from President Diem's Strategic Hamlet Cadre through the New Life Cadre to the highly competent, current Political Action Teams (TIME, Feb. 18), which already comprise some 16,000 workers in rural areas...
...militant Buddhists, the government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky last week wound up its first year in office in an anniversary waltz of energy and authority. For Ky and his generals to be around at all represented no mean accomplishment-the longest stretch of governmental stability since Diem fell...
...explained one Vietnamese last week, "because the monks do not have a just cause now. They did in 1963." Nor have the stage-managed martyrs produced the waves of shock in the U.S. that rolled across the press and public in 1963, generating pressure that persuaded Washington to abandon Diem...
...Clock Follies. As it grapples with the fractional, fluctuating political story, the Saigon press corps has lost much of the camaraderie of the chummy days of 1963, when so much reporting was aimed at supporting the same anti-Diem line. "Today there is no Halberstam group," says a relieved Pentagon observer, referring to New York Timesman
David Halberstam, who called the tune for the Diem baiters, and now reports from Paris. Today, Viet Nam reporters hardly get along with each other at all. None but the remotest news is pooled. "I've never worked anywhere in the world where I liked fewer newsmen," admits one old hand. Says a blunter and younger type: "I hate every other goddamned newspaperman in this place...