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...onetime TIME correspondent in Africa and Germany, the international tensions of recent weeks have provided a world tour by typewriter. As well as writing this week's cover story on U.N. Assembly President Mongi Slim, he wrote the cover stories on south Viet nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem (Aug. 4), East Germany's Puppet Ruler Walter Ulbricht (Aug. 25) and Nikita Khrushchev (Sept...
...feeling exhilarated about its victory three weeks ago over a big Viet Cong guerrilla force on the Plain of the Reeds. The Communist Viet Congs obviously could not leave it at that. They handed out leaflets cockily warning that trouble would come at any moment in President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital stronghold of Saigon. That same night, trouble came. As a truck loaded with troops pulled out of an army camp scarcely two miles from Diem's palace, a terrorist lobbed a grenade from the shadows. Two soldiers were killed, three more seriously wounded...
...battling against intrigue and betrayal had left him more wary and distrustful than ever. Always stiff and aloof, he was almost totally out of touch with the people, remained in his palace constantly. Even onetime admirers began to grumble about the influence of 51-year-old Brother Ngo Dinh Nhu. From a soundproofed office inside the palace, Nhu operated his own political party, the Can Lao, an elite group of 70,000 that was under orders to spy on the citizenry. There were also mutters about Nhu's wife, a pretty, dynamic feminist who carried on her own battles...
Another brother, a short, fortyish bachelor named Ngo Dinh Can, controls central Viet Nam from the family's hometown of Hué. He has his own network of secret police, holds sway over the government's provincial chiefs in the region. Reputedly owner of vast tracts of land, he is wealthy, contributed heavily to the construction of a new cathedral in Hue where Brother Ngo Dinh Thuc is now Archbishop...
...Southeast Asia, wanted the U.S. to take tougher action in Laos. Cottrell is willing to use rough, unorthodox methods to stop the Communists, works closely with Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, the Pentagon's guerrilla warfare expert who helped Magsaysay crush the Huks in the Philippines and advised Ngo Dinh Diem in his battle against the Binh Xuyen gang...