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...Roadblocks were set up on the outskirts, and barbed-wire barricades encircled the sacred Tudam Pagoda. These government security measures were not a precaution against an attack by Communist guerrillas; they were taken to quell demonstrations by Hue's Buddhist population against the regime of Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh...
Buddhists feel that Diem's government is trying to make Catholicism the official state religion, point to the morality crusade of Diem's militantly Catholic sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu. In sharp variance with the easy social mores of most South Vietnamese, Mme. Nhu has banned abortion, adultery, polygamy, concubinage, divorce (except by presidential dispensation), and the sale of contraceptives...
...qualified optimism. When Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara returned from a conference with service chiefs in Pearl Harbor last week, the Pentagon said "the corner has definitely been turned toward victory." No one was setting any timetable, but U.S. military chiefs and South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem say that the war should be won "within three years." There are many soldiers in South Viet Nam who consider this wildly optimistic; some believe that the war may never be won. But almost everyone agrees that things have improved. Today there is little danger that the Viet Cong...
...that 73 Americans have lost their lives in the fighting so far, their most bitter complaint is that military operations are constantly hobbled by political considerations. The big command decisions have to be cleared with President Diem, who still leans heavily on such members of his family as Brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, and the beauteous Madame Nhu, for advice and support in the struggle against the Communists. Diem is mistrustful of many of his best soldiers and fears also that continued heavy casualties will undermine what public support he enjoys. U.S. officers have pleaded in vain with Diem to allow...
...more than a year, the U.S. has been urging South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem to declare a general amnesty for Communist Viet Cong guerrillas in order to encourage wholesale desertions from the Red cause. Diem was in favor of the idea. But he always replied that as Abraham Lincoln waited two years after the beginning of the Civil War before issuing his Emancipation Proclamation, he, too, would wait for a propitious moment so that the move could not be interpreted as a desperate gesture by a sinking government to round up popular support. Last week, confident...