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...thing, the feud between U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and General Nguyen Khanh (see THE NATION) showed few if any signs of abating. While not speaking to Taylor, Khanh sent season's greetings to American troops in Viet Nam, warmly thanking them for their help in "our struggle for the defense of freedom." Khanh was shuttling back and forth from his resort-headquarters at Cap St. Jacques, where he huddled secretly with the Young Turk officers who, with Khanh, had outraged Taylor by toppling the civilian High National Council. At other times Khanh was seen speeding through Saigon...
Week of Silence. The U.S., for its part, tightened the screws on Khanh. U.S. advisers in the field were urged to try to ease tensions by discussing the situation with their Vietnamese counterparts. When Khanh demanded that the Americans stop "talking politics," the U.S. embassy ignored him. The embassy was also working on the Young Turks, one of whom said of the Khanh-Turk relationship: "Each side is using the other. Later we shall see who wins." Still in the middle was what was left of the civilian government of Premier Tran Van Huong and aging, ceremonial Chief of State...
...call came from no less a man than Lieut. General Nguyen Khanh, and Saigon's prettiest Western correspondent hopped a cab to the general's elegant town house on the Saigon River. There the New York Herald Tribune's Beverly Deepe, 29, found Khanh and his wife decorating their patio. They were getting ready for a petite danse, explained the general with a smile. Then he led the visitor into his study, where they talked for more than half an hour. "It was so fantastic," said Beverly later of what the general told her, "I didn...
...Deepe modestly attributed her coup to "luck and timing." "I was sure something like this was going to happen," she said, "and I had put in an application for an interview nearly three weeks before." Beverly has arranged just this kind of coup before. Her first exclusive audience with Khanh took place in August, after the general had been forced out as Premier. "I try to make friends with people on their way up," says Beverly, "and they remember me later-like Khanh...
...Nebraska and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Beverly toured the world in 1961, did so well as a freelance correspondent that she showed up later in Saigon as a stringer for Newsweek and for the London Daily Express. On the strength of her first interview with Khanh, the Trib hired her. By now, she has developed resources and contacts that largely obviate the need for getting along with the embassy, or even with Saigon's somewhat clubby and introspective press corps. What she does not know she can usually get from her two Vietnamese assistants, both...