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...theory that some star-minded dissident might be moved to try a coup on an astrologically auspicious day. In South Viet Nam everybody was indeed on the move, but where they were moving was no clearer than the zodiac. The U.S. was increasingly unhappy with President Ngo Dinh Diem (Capricorn), and after what the U.S. officially called his "brutal" crackdown on the Buddhists, Washington obviously could not string along with him as if nothing had happened...
...made noises designed to encourage opposition to Diem. But South Viet Nam being what it is, potential rebels did not want to move without virtually a written contract for U.S. support. Meanwhile the U.S. tried to place the odium of the crackdown on Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu (Libra),* and new Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge (Cancer) managed to suggest, without saying anything publicly, that he did not like what was going...
...aged monk with a black eye and bruises all over his face. The government explained that he had fallen down. In other respects, censorship was stringent. In outgoing cables from newsmen, the word Catholic was blue-penciled; after passing the censors, one story referred to "Roman President Ngo Dinh Diem...
...evidence that he was supplanting his brother; as far as could be detected, the two were working in harmony. Directly under Nhu, two officers seemed to be in command: be spectacled, pockmarked Colonel Le Quang Tung, in charge of the Special Forces, and Brigadier General Ton That Dinh, commander of the III Army Corps and military governor of Saigon, a dapper graduate of the U.S. Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, who wears a red beret, carries a swagger stick, and likes to be accompanied on military operations by his own photographer. Of South Viet...
...early phases of the quarrel, Diem probably could and should have conciliated the Buddhists. But he vacillated. His brother and sister-in-law, Ngo Dinh Nhu and Mme. Nhu, insisted that unless the Buddhists were crushed, there would be a coup threatening the very existence of the family's rule. Mme. Nhu's fiery philippics lent impetus to the Buddhist movement just as it appeared to be flagging. By last week, after three Buddhist suicides spurred new protest demonstrations throughout the country, it was clearly too late for conciliation. Even if Diem had wanted it, the Buddhist leaders...