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...getting to be a puppet that pulls its own strings." So runs the latest joke in Saigon. South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Khanh, not exactly an American puppet, certainly is the Vietnamese leader in whom the U.S. has shown its greatest confidence, and in whom it has placed its highest hopes. Last week, Khanh moved well ahead of official U.S. policy by saying, in effect, that the war against the Reds cannot be won so long as it is restricted to the south, that the only solution is to move against North Viet...
...rally marking the "Day of National Shame," the tenth anniversary of the Geneva accords partitioning Viet Nam, Khanh told 60,000 of his country men: "This is not only an urgent appeal of a million refugees from the north, nourishing the dream of liberating their native land. This is not only the ardent wish of thousands of families in the south with relatives who went to the north. This is also the fervent wish of the religious sects, and of the students . . . The push northward [is] an appropriate means of fulfilling our national history." Then the little general...
...sparingly, scheduled "working lunches" for weeks ahead. Accompanied by Deputy Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson, also newly arrived, Taylor embarked on a series of meetings, briefing and protocol sessions on his first day. He was up with the dawn next morning to pay a call on goateed Premier Nguyen Khanh...
...When General Khanh's South Vietnamese troops and their G.I. advisers "clear" a village, that village is swiftly transformed into a "strategic hamlet"-ringed by barbed wire, sandbags, searchlights and gun nests. Its peasants are then encouraged to till their fields in support of Khanh's regime. When the Communist Viet Cong occupy a village, they give out food, medicine, supplies, and free tips on improved farming methods. Then come the leaflets foretelling the glorious rewards of working under the Communist state. The peasant is reminded of the dynamic figure of Ho Chi Minh to the north...
...Saigon, Premier General Nguyen Khanh addressed 70 leaders of South Viet Nam's multitudinous, microscopic political parties (31 at last count), pleaded with them to close ranks behind his government. Of continuing concern were relations between the country's wary Buddhists and Catholics. Last week 25,000 Catholics staged a unity march in Saigon, which was orderly except for a militant minority that carried banners urging U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to GO HOME. Many Catholics believe thai odge was instrumental in the U.S. decision to curtail aid to Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem prior to Diem...