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...take a stand in Communism's next Southeast Asia target: South Viet Nam, already infested with Communist guerrillas and terrorists (see THE WORLD). The geography and politics are more favorable than in Laos: South Viet Nam faces on the sea, and the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem is intensely committed to the task of fighting Communism...
...last week, the women wearing their best tunics and diaphanous silk trousers. There was scattered gunfire as Communist guerrillas raided a polling place here and there. But when the returns were in, 75% of the electorate had defied Communist threats to kill anyone who voted, gave embattled President Ngo Dinh Diem a massive vote of confidence and another five-year term in office. Running against two unknowns, Diem piled up 88% of the vote...
Predictions Off. The Communists' enemy No. 1 is South Viet Nam's tough President Ngo Dinh Diem, 60, and their drive is given added fury by the fact that after the Geneva conference that divided Indo-China seven years ago, just about everybody predicted that Diem could never last. Not only has he lasted, but South Viet Nam has prospered to become an even more tempting target for the Reds-and a standing contrast to the poverty-stricken Communist North. Helped along by $150 million in U.S. aid each year, the South is a hard-working country...
...border to Cambodia, where they maintain a hospital and supply dumps. Though the Geneva International Control Commission has protested the attacks, North Viet Nam replied bluntly last month that "this struggle will not only be carried on but will score ever greater victories until the final defeat of Ngo Dinh Diem...
Calm attended the re-election of President Ngo Dinh Dicm in South Vietnam this week. 70 per cent of the voters turned out to give Ngo a margin of victory sure to be looked on as one rare and gratifying sign that the West still maintains a position of vigor and strength in Southeast Asia--a balm badly needed after Laos. There is, in fact, so much heartening news from South Vietnam these days that one forgets how precarious the situation there really is. Announcements that the small nation's chronic trade deficit is shrinking, that its agricultural production...