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Telling the complex story of Viet Nam is an every-issue matter with TIME. And, since the climactic fall of the Diem regime in November 1963, the story has required cover treatment no fewer than 16 times.* The team of correspondents who did this week's on-the-spot reporting is unmatched for its expertise, including as it did Hong Kong Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch, who has been covering the war for 2½ years, and James Wilde, an old Viet Nam hand, as well as seasoned reporters Donald Neff, William McWhirter, Zalin Grant, Than Trong Hue and Robin...
...week screeching street mobs, urged on by the same Buddhist monks who ignited the 1963 uprisings that led to the murder of Ngo Dinh Diem, rampaged out of control in Saigon, Danang, Hue and other cities. This time they were baying for the end of South Viet Nam's ten-man Military Directory and, in particular, for the ouster of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky (see THE WORLD). Through it all, the Administration maintained a meticulous, almost relaxed air of calm in the eye of the storm...
...capital of the nation's discontent, a place where politics is an obsession and proud factionalism the overarching fact of life. Under the French, the people of Hué mounted some sort of rebellious trouble at least once a year. More recently, the agitations that ultimately toppled Diem, then General Khanh, then Chief of State Phan Khac Suu, all began in Hué and rippled southward to Saigon like an infection. And for the last month, the waves of political unrest aimed at swamping Premier Nguyen Cao Ky have been rolling out of Hué in measured but ominously...
...lingering trace of Talleyrand in Vu Van Thai, South Vietnam's ambassador to the U.S. Just as Talleyrand spent the Terror safely secluded in the United States, so did Thai work as a U.N. staff member in Togo, during the seven coups and dozen reshuffles since the fall of Diem. Thai's return suggests that he has mastered Talleyrand's chameleon-like ability to shift positions and survive...
Although Ambassador Thai once advised Ho Chi Minh, he now represents Saigon in a war against the Communist; and although he was once a high level minister to Diem, he now belongs to a regime that helped eliminate Diem. This facility of making contrary things seem compatible extends even to his dress. During our interview in the Quincy House guest suite, the Ambassador wore a continental black suit with green socks, a blue tie, and oxblood shoes; yet he still looked natty. Nor did he find it contradictory to attribute the stability of the Ky regime to the cooperation...