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...achievements are impressive. From a desk in his big, yellow stucco Freedom Palace, he has fought the Communists 16 hours a day for seven years. In that time, he has built a nation from the wreckage of the Indo-Chinese war. His critics were sure he would fall within six months after he took office in 1954. Instead, he and his country have survived and thrived. Rice exports have quadrupled and currency reserves are at a record level. To Diem's credit is a successful land-reform program, lower rents for peasants, a boom in light industry; with the help...
Gauze Trousers. Curled like a shrimp around the Indo-Chinese Peninsula, South Viet Nam is washed by 900 miles of the South China Sea. Behind the sandy dunes of the north are tiers of flat plains leading back to the highlands where 300,000 Moi hut dwellers search the thick forests for white elephants as good-luck charms. In the south are the hard-working Annamese peasants, squatting under conical hats of palm leaves in the brimming Mekong Delta marshes to plant the rice that is South Viet Nam's chief source of sustenance and a major export. The delta...
Fitfully, Diem once again began playing on the fringes of politics. After the Communists and the French had started their Indo-China shooting war in 1946, he formed a resistance movement against them both; it never amounted to much. The French offered to back him as head of a provisional government at one stage, but they balked when he demanded dominion status for Viet Nam. Finally, amid the bloody fighting, Ngo Dinh Diem packed up and left with an older brother, Ngo Dinh Thuc, a Catholic priest, for a trip around the world. Reaching the U.S., Diem paused to rest...
...asked President Kennedy to help push Nehru toward a settlement of the Indo-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir, which is ruled by India but is heavily Moslem in population. "Work on Mr. Nehru's nerves." Ayub urged Kennedy. He argued that the Kennedy Administration had highly overrated the importance of neutral India in its allocation of aid, and that more U.S. money ought to be channeled to SEATO ally Pakistan. Nehru was overrated, too, suggested Ayub: "People think he's thinking all the time-actually, he's just in a trance...
...struggling South Vietnamese army last week won its biggest battle against the Communists since the end of the Indo-China...