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...More Siestas. In Saigon, Lieut General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, the head of the ruling military junta, rode about almost unnoticed in a black Citroen (in contrast to Diem's vast motorcades), visiting a few government offices and military units. He also opened promising negotiations with Vietnamese sects that had withdrawn sup port from Diem but were not ready to rally to the new regime. But while still clearly favored by the population, the new regime seemed oddly reluctant to assume political leadership. One of its few decisions: to abolish the siesta that has traditionally closed government offices...
Obviously, the Communists were trying to get the jump on the country's new military leader, Lieut. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, before he could get his own campaign organized. Minh and his fellow generals have assigned aggressive new officers to combat commands, but their forces have not regained the momentum against the Viet Cong...
...Corpses. Behind the first euphoric reaction to the coup there was some fairly grim political business for the crowd of generals who had accomplished it. The officers under Lieut. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh first moved to consolidate their victory. Reportedly they executed the captured commander of Diem's elite Special Forces, Colonel Le Quang Tung, his brother, the Special Forces Chief of Staff, Major Le Quang Trieu, and a former leader of Diem's Republican youth. They also placed under "protective custody" several former Diem officials...
...when crackdowns on the Buddhists continued, Don and Lieut. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh grew troubled. Egged on by the disturbed U.S. official community, Don, Minh and most of the key generals prepared a 20-page paper outlining proposed reforms, mostly aimed at getting the war against the Viet Cong back on the move, and presented it to President Diem. The President, said one officer, "agreed to every clause," but did nothing whatever to put the reforms into practice. Diem's determined inaction, say the generals, more than anything else, sealed his fate...
...uprising was led by a Vietnamese soldier well known to the American military, a man of whom one U.S. general had said: "I would certainly like to have him in the U.S. Army." He is Lieut. General Duong Van Minh, 47, known as "Big" Minh, a blunt, burly, French-trained veteran. Obviously he had been able to rally, at least for the moment, the deeply divided Vietnamese army. This week he was in charge, along with a military junta of fellow officers-in charge of the army, of the war, and to a large extent of the heavy U.S. stake...