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While South Viet Nam struggled through the sixth week of its deepest political trauma since the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem 2½ years ago, Washington could only watch, agonize and pray. In all the crises that have faced the U.S. since its postwar emergence as the free world's greatest power, there had never been a more sobering reminder of the limitations of American might within the self-imposed limitations of American foreign policy. As the principal guarantor of South Viet Nam's independence, the U.S. could do little but wait patiently in the wings while...
...that, everybody concurred-but on precious little besides. Among Ramparts' other natterings: the cloak-and-dagger men, though supposedly assigned to teach the police administration techniques, were actually under orders "to engage in counterespionage and counterintelligence"; M.S.U. raked in $25 million in seven years before Premier Ngo Dinh Diem canceled its contract; the university "actually supplied" the Vietnamese "with guns and ammunition." The gravest accusation of all, from the standpoint of academic integrity, was that the university had made "a conscious effort to prepare reports pleasing, or at least palatable" to Diem...
...East Lansing, M.S.U. officials were as irate as campus football fans on a losing Saturday. "A scurrilous and silly hatchet job," said Political Scientist Wesley Fishel, who headed the project from 1956 to 1958 and was "as close as friends can be" with Diem. Fishel conceded that the university knew all about the CIA men. "Anyway, they joined the project on our terms," he said. "While I was there, there was definitely no cloak-and-dagger stuff. They trained the Vietnamese police...
...Love Lost." In 1959, largely because the CIA men on the payroll had become an open secret in Saigon, the agents were transferred to the U.S. mission there, and M.S.U. was able to sever its uncomfortable connection. Three years later, Diem had the project terminated because, said Smuckler, he "felt the people in it were not 'sufficiently loyal' to him"-that is, they had published critical articles. Smuckler termed Ramparts' figure of $25 million for the project "ridiculous," insisted that the university had received only $5,354,352.75 in seven years. As for the gun-buying charge...
Saint or Seer? To his mission, Tri Quang brings an intelligence and a toughness that have not been seen in a South Vietnamese leader since Ngo Dinh Diem, whose downfall the ascetic bonze triggered in 1963. Since then he has added the scalps of three more governments. Last week he scored another triumph, this time over the Directory of generals headed by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. It was no small feat, since the generals comprise the combined armed might of South Viet Nam, but Tri Quang is armed with his own powerful weapons: an unerring instinct for politics, a perfect...