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...diplomats turned Can over to Big Minh's junta, on the understanding that he would be granted something more than the summary judgment meted out to Diem and Nhu, whose bullet-riddled corpses reportedly lie buried in the courtyard of Saigon's Joint
...coup-a purported "neutralist plot" within the former junta. It is far from certain that all the military are behind him. But he has rewarded his chief collaborators hand somely. Major General Tran Thien Khiem, whose III Corps troops arrested former Junta Boss General Du ong Van ("Big") Minh, got the No. 2 military job as Defense Minister and commander in chief. But among the ranks of Khanh's new, expanded, 53-man junta (eight major generals, nine brigadier generals, 25 colonels, ten lieutenant colonels, one major), there was endless wrangling over the lesser spoils. Many a junior officer...
...week's end Khanh managed to put together a "government of national unity." His Cabinet was a mixed bag of politicians, bureaucrats and soldiers. He gave Big Minh his old title back as "Chief of State," and invited him to move into Gia Long Palace, once occupied by Diem. Minh, still popular with both the masses and the U.S. embassy, had already agreed to front for Khanh as "supreme military adviser." But Khanh, who plans to pull the strings, named himself Premier...
...subsequent reshuffle of commands, Minh irked his seasoned fellow general by assigning Khanh to the 1st Corps in the North, one area that the Diem regime had pretty well cleared of Viet Cong guerrillas. However, Khanh firmly denied that it was personal resentment or ambition that prompted him to overthrow Minh. His sole aim, he insisted, was to forestall a takeover by "neutralist" agents who, said he, had been "blatantly" slipped into South Viet Nam for the purpose by France's Charles de Gaulle. Khanh charged, moreover, that the four generals arrested with Minh included a clique within...
...turned down, Khanh at once won pledges of support from several key officers who shared his views, notably General Tran Thien Khiem, commanding the 3rd Corps troops around Saigon. Four of Khiem's battalions had been readied for a strike against the Viet Cong, were used instead against Minh & Co. Nine hours after Minh had refused Khanh's request to break with France, he was under arrest...