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...Chicago's Political Scientist Hans Morgenthau joined the ranks of 17 lawyers, authors, ministers and academicians who recently published an open letter to President Johnson urging a similar course. Morgenthau concedes that the Hanoi Communists might then take over in the South, but contends that Ho Chi Minh would turn into a Tito-type Red, independent of Peking...
Room for a Comeback. As usual, the latest crisis was a continuation of earlier intrigue. Forced to relinquish the premiership last October, Commander in Chief Khanh had never given up hope of a comeback. One of his problems was how to neutralize an old enemy, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh. Meanwhile, a group of younger second-echelon officers, inevitably known as the "Young Turks," were also spoiling for influence, and their targets were the five "Dalat generals," so nicknamed because of a period of arrest they had spent during 1964 in the mountain resort of Dalat. Released re cently...
Since the same decree would also retire Big Minh, Khanh threw in with the Turks, joined them in organizing a 20-general "Council of the Armed Forces," with the stated purpose of improving discipline...
...Force jets have been flying reconnaissance missions over Laos since last May. Their purpose is twofold: to keep an eye on the Communist Pathet Lao, who have been relatively passive lately, and to see who or what is filtering down from North Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos and into South Viet Nam. Last week, three days apart, two U.S. jets were knocked down by Communist guns near the murkily marked "panhandle" where North Viet Nam forms a narrow corridor between Laos and the sea. One pilot died, while the second was rescued by helicopter...
Nibbling at the Edges. Thus, under apparently more favorable consideration are such notions as launching air strikes against the Laotian section of the Ho Chi Minh trail from North Viet Nam or pressuring Cambodia, which serves as a sanctuary for Viet Cong raiders, by cutting off Cambodian shipping that moves down the Mekong River through South Viet Nam to the sea. "We shall start," said a high State Department official, "by nibbling around at the edges...