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...Camau villager, however, who Diem was. "Don't know." Had he heard of Communist Ho Chi Minh? "He's President." Had he heard of the U.S.? "The Viet Minh say you're all capitalists." What's a capitalist? "They make people poor." Wreath on the Monument. Gingerly Diem's young Nationalist army moved step by step more deeply into Camau-the towns first, then the villages, then out by powered boats along the bayous. They had been carefully briefed (with U.S. assistance). No French were anywhere to be seen, and no mention was made...
...shall do my best." Gradually the indoctrinated and indifferent villagers grew more receptive. Premier Diem, however, did not underrate the ingrained tenacity of Viet Minh Communism. One day one of Diem's Nationalist soldiers accidentally kicked over a wreath the Viet Minh had left behind on a monument to their dead. A young Camau kid quietly stepped out from a group of passers-by and, unafraid, laid the wreath back in its place...
...swallowed up by the Kremlin. she is more than grateful. Perhaps through this utter dependence on America, the Berliners have absorbed much of our system, and have reached independence in their thinking. The magnificent glass-and -concrete Free University, put up by a Ford Foundation, is as much a monument to America's influence as is the Air Lift memorial...
...Permitting Russians to enter Cambridge is neither a threat to United States security nor a alight on the importance of Cambridge," State Department officials said. "It would do the Russians good to see a monument to American democratic education like Harvard," they added...
...sunlit Yellow Room of Panama's presidential residence last week, representatives of the U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that the U.S. ambassador called "a monument to the enduring fame" of assassinated President José Antonio Remón (TIME, Jan. 17). A major revision of the Panama Canal pact of 1903, the treaty was largely Remon's handiwork. He first talked it over with President Eisenhower in Washington 16 months ago, kept watch on negotiations, obtained terms highly favorable to his country. Among other things, Panama gets: 1) an increase from...