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Coup Rumors. The contest for South Viet Nam could also be lost on the political front. Last week Saigon was once again alive with talk of a coup. The speculation started when South Vietnamese Senator Tran Van Don invited some 300 Vietnamese to his home in Saigon's Cholon section to toast the anniversary of the 1963 overthrow of the Diem regime. Among the guests was General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, a popular leader of the 1963 plot and an old Thieu rival, who is regarded as the possible leader of a coalition government. Asked about his plans...
Another inhibiting factor is that Thieu is becoming a more effective President. In his elation over Nixon's speech, Thieu last week journeyed into the countryside for the second time in five days. In Lam Dong province, north of Saigon, he made a presentation of land titles to two of 1,737 peasants being given acres under his accelerated land-reform program. At a stopover in the mountain resort of Dalat, he hosted a lamb barbecue for a group of foreign diplomats and journalists...
Instead of the noise of rifles and rockets, the Middle East reverberated last week with talk. In its way, much of the talk was as deadly, since it portended further violence...
Nasser Rampant. Possibly to counter the renewed popularity of Fedayeen Leader Arafat, Egypt's Nasser last week sounded especially bellicose. Boasting about Egypt's readiness for another round of fighting, he said that the country now has 500,000 men under arms and a war chest of over $1 billion. Backing up his words, Nasser ordered a series of daytime raids by Egyptian commandos against Israeli patrols in Sinai...
...possibility that talk once again might turn into violence placed added urgency on Soviet-American attempts to work out a Middle East blueprint for peace. As a result of discussions between Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco, the two nations last week were reportedly near agreement on peace terms. The U.S. is said to have conceded that Israel must return to the border with Egypt that existed before the 1967 war. Russia and the U.S. were also said to have agreed that Israel must accept the return of Palestinian refugees on a quota basis...