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...Saigon's yellow stucco Freedom Palace, South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem woke with a start. Mortar shells were falling on the lawn, and paratroopers were assaulting the palace gate...
South Viet Nam is clearly the target of a new Communist offensive in South east Asia. President Ngo Dinh Diem has doughtily faced crises before. Bolstered by $1 billion in U.S. aid, Diem courageously saved a nation that had been written off by the experts when it was created in 1955. He smashed the "armies" of the militant religious sects, welcomed and resettled nearly a million refugees who had fled Communist North Viet Nam, embarked on ambitious projects in road building, railways, land reform and agricultural credit. A start has been made in safeguarding the peasants by moving them from...
Stuffed Heads. Because of his distrust of other people, Diem rules largely through his family. One brother controls central Viet Nam; another is Ambassador to London; a third is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Vinhlong. Diem's closest adviser is a fourth brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, whose pretty wife is a member of the National Assembly and the country's leading feminist. Nhu, intellectual, articulate, smooth, has all the qualities Diem lacks. Though he holds no government position, Nhu works in a soundproof palace office, surrounded by books and stuffed animal heads. Diem takes Brother...
...Gulf of Thailand. Their total strength is now estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 men, concentrated in the swampy Mekong Delta-"a diseased part of the body," one U.S. observer calls it. It is a secret, hushed war of stealth and secrecy, since the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem suppresses all news of new murders or incidents. The Reds' special targets have been civil officials, and in recent months they have managed to murder an average of ten a day. One government administrator is still stubbornly at work, although he was shot six times by the Communists...
Belatedly alarmed, Ngo Dinh Diem sent "information teams" into northern Thailand to dissuade the refugees from choosing Communism, but few even showed up at Diem's neat little propaganda houses to hear his message. Last week the first 922 Vietnamese refugees boarded a ship in Bangkok for the five-day trip to Haiphong and North Viet...