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...secret 1964 post-mortem on the coup hits the newsstands in Saigon. The document, whose authenticity has not been verified by any of the principals involved, is a transcript of a tape of an alleged informal two-day "trial" of the coup leaders held in March 1964 by Nguyen Khanh, the stumpy general who overthrew the Minh junta three months after the Diem coup because he feared it was going "neutralist...
...Cabot Lodge wondered in a cable to Washington: "Will he be strong enough to get on top of things?" He was not, and by 1964 he was ousted in another coup and subsequently exiled to Bangkok for nearly four years by a more forceful rival for power, General Nguyen Khanh...
...scholars concluded that bombing of North Viet Nam was ineffective. NUCLEAR THREAT. According to the Pentagon papers, the U.S. was considering the use of nuclear weapons in the event of Chinese intervention in Viet Nam. In a conversation with South Viet Nam's then Premier Nguyen Khanh, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said that if the planned U.S. military buildup triggered Chinese intervention, "we would not allow ourselves to be bled white while fighting them with conventional weapons." Rusk, however, was relatively restrained in comparison with many other ranking U.S. officials. Time and again, the Pentagon papers show that...
...English? I told you all clearly at General Westmoreland's dinner we Americans were tired of coups. Apparently I wasted my words. Now you have made a real mess. We cannot carry you forever if you do things like this." Taylor's irritation seemed justified, but, as General Nguyen Khanh said last week, "He was convoking me as if he were MacArthur on occupation in Japan...
...they comprise an extraordinarily complex ethnolmguistic mixture numbering at least 20 tribes and many more splinter groupings. They have for centuries resisted the cultural influences of the Sinic and Hindu peoples that have flooded into the IndoChinese peninsula. Saigon leaders, from President Ngo Dinh Diem through General Nguyen Khanh and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, had gone through similar ceremonies previously in attempts to rally the Montagnards to Saigon's cause-without success. Instead, Montagnard sentiments gradually coalesced around an organization known as FULRO (Front Unifie de Lutte des Races