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...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...
...drove through Cholon and saw block after block of devastated buildings. Cholon and Gia Dinh had been the operations bases for the NLF battalions attacking Saigon during the 1968 Tet offensive. U.S. fire had leveled both districts in the counter-attacks. We had burned out villages and shot women and children and then built orphanages for the orphans we had made. Only whorehouses sprang up as fast as orphanages during...
Thumbing through 59 TIME cover stories is another way to review the twists, shocks, hopes and frustrations of the strangest war in U.S. history. Through the 1950s, it was still a foreign conflict, and the cover subjects included Emperor Bao Dai, Ho Chi Minh (top two) and Ngo Dinh Diem. When a military coup felled Diem in 1963, Murray Gart, now chief of correspondents, watched some of the action from a Saigon rooftop. There was only one central cable office in Saigon then, and to avoid delay and censorship, Gart flew to Bangkok to file material for a cover story...
...streets of Saigon were filled with joy and vengeance on Nov. 1, 1963-the day that South Vietnamese generals stormed Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential palace and sent him to his grave. First came the long night of siege and the thunder of tanks in battle at the palace walls. Then came the final rush through the grounds by Diem's once faithful soldiers. As the battle subsided, I caught the first glimpse of a white flag waving tentatively from a first-floor palace window. In a minute or so the air was filled with silence-and with...
...country in May, anyone who is considered a threat to national security-a vague charge, to be sure -can be held in "preventive detention" indefinitely without trial. Even prisoners who have finished their sentences can still be held if they are considered dangerous to security. Opposition Leader Truong Dinh Dzu, who ran against Thieu in 1967 as a peace candidate and was subsequently jailed for advocating a coalition government, was due to be released in May. He is still behind bars, although his quarters are comfortable and his family is allowed to visit...