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...South Viet Nam of the novel is governed by "President Cung," who is the double of the late Ngo Dinh Diem; an army coup against him is brewing. It is Amberley's job to bring the fiercely independent Cung and his policies under U.S. control or, failing that, to back the army coup. After open negotiations and private appeals with an obbligato of CIA skulduggery, Amberley does fail with President Cung; the coup does take place exactly along the lines of the one that deposed and murdered Diem...
...steadily and quietly rebuilt confidence in the CIA and its sensitive role. Under his direction, the agency's performance in alerting Washington to the Russian missile buildup in Cuba in the fall of 1962 was flawless. Before the 1963 coup against South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, the CIA correctly predicted the coup, also warned against the internal strife that would follow. Last Sept. 17 McCone flatly predicted that the Red Chinese would explode their first nuclear bomb within 30 to 60 days. They...
Within the past month, hard-core Viet Cong battalions have captured 70 of the 82 government-defended hamlets in Hoai Nhon district. Hoai Nhon (pronounced why none) is the strategic key to control of Binh Dinh province. And if Binh Dinh, with its highways, harbors and airbases, falls, South Viet Nam is effectively decapitated...
Missed Mother. The aim of the largely Catholic, largely right-wing rebels was to halt what they considered a drift toward neutralism in South Viet Nam, and they even extolled deposed, murdered President Ngo Dinh Diem. Whatever the rebels' motives, had they succeeded, the Buddhists would have instantly taken to the streets. As it turned out, the rebels did not succeed-but who did was far from clear...
...fact, all of the preconditions necessary for such a policy were undermined by the regime imposed by the United States. In June, 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem became the de facto chief of state, possessing dictatorial powers. Diem had been in France during the later years of the war, and owed his appointment to his influence with Bao Dai, under whose regime he served as Minister of the Interior...