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...months since the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem, the news out of South Viet Nam has been mostly bad. The Communist Viet Cong have scored alarming gains in vital Long An province south of Saigon, which feeds the capital. For all the fanfare with which they were welcomed by Diem's critics, the generals who succeeded the slain President have demonstrated an unsettling lack of political leadership; recently, the civilian chiefs of nine northern provinces relayed a plea to junta chairman Major General Duong Van ("Big") Minh: "Please send us orders...
...official proclamation, a government broadcast said that "thanks to divine protection, all Cambodia's enemies suffer complete destruction. Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu were killed by bullets. Their friend Sarit, who mistreated Cambodia incessantly, met with sudden death. Moreover, the great boss of these aggressors met the same fate." When the U.S. officially protested these words, Cambodia denied any derogatory intentions toward President Kennedy, but it huffily recalled its ambassador from Washington...
...criticism brought against President Ngo Dinh Diem was that he kept some of his best officers in noncombat jobs for political reasons. One promise made by Diem's successors was to appoint aggressive new commanders and give them a free hand. Last week the first such new commander found him self sacked and ordered to a desk exile that even Diem had not thought of-military attache in Formosa...
After their coup, South Viet Nam's rebels announced that President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, were killed in an armored car when Nhu scuffled with an army captain over a gun. Hardly anyone believed that story. According to a likelier version, the brothers were taken to Joint General Staff Headquarters; Diem refused to announce his resignation and Nhu started cursing-whereupon one of the generals pulled his gun and shot them. In any case, the new government to this day terms their deaths "accidental suicide...
Still a mystery is the whereabouts of the bodies. Fortnight ago, a picture peddler appeared again, this time exhibiting photographs of two coffins, marked Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, on trestles, with an unidentified army officer standing near by. Other prints showed the coffins, decorated with flowers and candles, beside two freshly dug graves, and a European priest in the foreground along with a Vietnamese man and woman said to be Diem relatives. The site was said to be a cemetery within the compound of Joint General Staff Headquarters...