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...role as leader of a war-torn nation for too long. His only ideological offerings were weary anti-Communism and vague nationalism. Meanwhile, the war went poorly, and in defeat Buddhists and Catholics found their historical hatreds coming to a boil. When Khanh dismissed Roman Catholic Interior Minister Lam Van Phat, a dour, desiccated brigadier general who felt the Premier had given in too easily to Buddhist reform demands, the situation reached flash point...
...against the concessions Khanh had been forced to grant the Buddhist majority in his strife-torn nation in the past few weeks. The coup leaders are officers who had either been fired by Khanh or were on the brink of being cashiered. Top man seemed to be Brigadier General Lam Van Phat, a lean, taciturn officer who last week was eased out of his job as Interior Minister in Khanh's Cabinet. Under the murdered Roman Catholic President Diem, Lam Van Phat had been appointed 7th Division commander, but he was considered by U.S. military advisers...
...Baltimore, a judge added two more contempt-of-court citations to the charges, arising out of the police melee, that a grand jury returned. Mrs. Murray may never have to face the music. Although she is legally subject to extradition, Baltimore seldom tries to recapture defendants on the lam except for serious crimes, and the state's attorney general says that Mrs. Murray "isn't worth extraditing." Besides, many felt that it might be better to let the whole matter drop; the Baltimore Sun declared that the city had "treated Mrs. Murray shabbily...
...heavyweights are everybody's heroes, with their tomato-red Cadillacs and gold-lamè sport coats, their 18-in. biceps and sledgehammer fists. When they fight, the whole world watches. So what happens? One punch, and it's goodbye Charley, let's do this again next year. It doesn't even seem to matter where the punch lands: Cassius Clay taps Sonny Listen on the arm, and Sonny takes the pipe sitting on his stool...
...writers of his era, Lewis enjoyed bohemian Paris for a few years, but he was hardly rebelling against his parents. He kept his mother, who was back in London, well informed of his escapades. Could his mother find a "nice, peaceful" cottage for a friend who was on the lam after shooting a man in a bar? Could his mother, please, come to Paris for a couple of weeks to get his mistress out of his hair? "I've come to that stage where I positively hate the sight of her, and I think we could amuse ourselves better...