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...South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem has internal political problems far greater than Taylor had supposed-and those problems are hampering effective military action against the Communist Viet Cong. The people surrounding Diem are undercutting him, creating internal strife that gets in the way of U.S. efforts to bring some order out of the situation...
...forward cabin. For the next three days and 9,000 miles, Taylor and members of his top-level team were almost continuously locked in consultation. Only a few hours after their jet touched down at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem underscored the urgency of their mission by announcing a state of national emergency, admitting that his country is engaged in a full-scale war with the Communists...
...SOUTH VIET NAM, the Communist guerrillas have doubled their strength in the past six months and seem able to muster a battalion-sized force at any point they choose, strike with it, and be gone before the road-bound army of President Ngo Dinh Diem can retaliate. Washington expects at any time a Communist announcement that the western plateau of South Viet Nam, next to the Laos border, is "liberated territory," complete with a "capital'' and a Communist government. Should it happen, Washington suggested last week, the U.S. will dispatch regimental combat teams to help train the South...
...Saigon last week, South Viet Nam's embattled President Ngo Dinh Diem was forced to a bitter admission. In the wake of Communist assaults on fortified posts and provincial centers, Diem confessed that his government was no longer engaged in police action against the Viet Cong guerrillas, but now faced "a real war waged by an enemy who attacks us with regular units fully and heavily equipped." The 150,000-man South Viet Nam army is spread so thin that in recent battles it has been outnumbered by the Communist...
...daily flights of Soviet Ilyushin planes land on the Communist-held Plaine des Jarres to disgorge arms for the 20,000-man Pathet Lao army. Neutral Cambodia is apparently too weak to police its own frontiers. Should the pro-Western government of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem fall before the Communists, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma and Malaya will have little chance of staying free...