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...years after his murder in a bloody military coup, the memory of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem last week stirred a curious nostalgia in Saigon. About 3,000 Diem supporters marched to the city's Victorian cathedral to attend a memorial service, then moved on to a nearby cemetery where Diem lies buried under an inconspicuous concrete slab. Gongs tolled. Drums thumped. Buddhist monks intoned prayers. Two Catholic bands played the national anthem...
Last week, the name of William Shockley aroused passions here at Harvard when the Law School Forum, a lecture-sponsoring group with a history of controversial speakers (Fidel Castro, Malcolm X, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu), announced that it would hold a debate between Shockley and Roy Innis, national director of the Congress for Racial Equality...
Truong's father, Truong Dinh Dzu, finished second to Thieu in South Vietnam's last multi-candidate election--in the fall of 1967--and spent the next few years in prison...
...White House officials-the CIA and the State Department had helped Convicted Wiretapper E. Howard Hunt Jr. carry out covert activities. These involved either the investigation of Ellsberg or the fabrication of cables falsely implicating President John Kennedy in the assassination of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem...
According to sworn testimony by Hunt, he then examined the cables to determine whether there was any indication, as he hoped, that President John Kennedy had ordered the assassination of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. Hunt said that this study was supervised by Charles Colson, then special counsel to Nixon. Hunt claimed that he showed Colson some cables that could conceivably have been interpreted as implied orders from the Kennedy Administration to "pull the trigger against Diem's head." According to Hunt, Colson declared: "Well, this isn't good enough. Do you think that...