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...question now being debated in the Administration is simply this: Should the U.S. declare war on North Vietnam? The CRIMSON pointed out in an editorial on Nov. 17, 1964, shortly after the disaster at Bienhoa airforce base, that General Khanh's proposals for attacking the North were gaining favor with American policy makers. The recent American air strikes against North Vietnam revealed that these views now have more than verbal support in the Administration. Some observers feel that McGeorge Bundy is the chief advocate of the attacks on the North, and that he was in Vietnam two weeks...
Recently some Cuban and Belgian mercenaries publically admitted in a television interview that they were training in the Congo for another attempt to invade Cuba. (Unless the U.S. stops such inhuman training exercises and support of unpopular minority governments such as Tshombe's and General Khanh's, Africans will start using U.S. libraries and legations as training targets for sabotago and bon-fires...
Less than Enthusiastic. The Bundy mission also sparked speculation that Maxwell Taylors days as U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam are numbered. Taylor, of course, has been feuding openly with South Viet Nam's current leader, General Nguyen Khanh. Only last December President Johnson confided to an associate that he thought Taylor's tour of duty in Saigon might well end this spring: Taylor, he explained, has served the U.S. for many years, is tired, and wants a rest. Ironically enough, the deteriorating situation in Viet Nam has probably lengthened Taylor's tenure. For Johnson to recall...
...does every U.S. visitor to Saigon, Bundy met with frustrations. He particularly wanted to meet with Khanh, but their first scheduled session was canceled when Bundy received orders to stand by for a priority message (nature unspecified) from the White House. The two were also supposed to meet at a U.S.-sponsored reception; Khanh sent regrets. Bundy finally did manage to spend an hour with Khanh. What they said to each other remains unknown, but Bundy emerged looking less than enthusiastic. He also met with Khanh's Acting Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Oanh and Chief of State Phan Khac...
...Khanh is capable of handing out both medicine and discipline. At his orders last week, a Viet Cong saboteur-a 20-year-old Saigon student caught carrying a hand grenade-was stood up before a sandbag parapet in Saigon's market square and shot...