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...outward pose of calm. But heavily armed gangsters and cops of the Binh Xuyen sect, in their arsenic-green berets, patrolled the boulevards, ordering traffic, and blockading the city's approaches so that they could control the price and supply of rice. Steel-helmeted nationalist paratroopers of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem were also out on patrol, but they were restrained from getting rid of the terrorists by an uneasy 17-day truce-enforced by the French army and supported by the U.S. French Commissioner General Paul Ely was counseling "a political settlement," meaning that Diem should come to terms...
...midnight in Saigon. The windows of Freedom Palace were open, and Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, in grey striped pajamas, was pacing his third-floor bedroom. Suddenly, through the sultry night, Diem heard the clatter of machine-gun fire, the cries of wounded men. In the next instant, half a dozen mortar shells exploded beneath Ngo Dinh Diem's open window. "We never believed they would dare attack us!" said one of Diem's aides, aghast. But on Diem's shabby desk in Freedom Palace lay the confirmation: "All South Viet Nam will be put to blood...
Next morning, wearied and frustrated, Ngo Dinh Diem went back to negotiation with the sects, while the Binh Xuyen resumed its arrogant patrolling and called up reinforcements. "Vietnamese anger is mounting," TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin cabled from Saigon, "and many foreign observers sympathize completely. It is probably too strong to say, as some are saying, that the French have a Machiavellian master plan to subvert the anti-French Nationalist Diem and with him the U.S. effort to save South Viet Nam from the Communists. But most Americans here conclude, nevertheless, that French actions and policies will have that effect unless...
Haircuts & Chickens. It is one of the discomfiting truths of South Viet Nam that not all are sure they prefer the unfulfilled hopes of non-Communist rule to the confidently touted certainties of Red government. For Premier Ngo Dinh Diem there is a hard shell of resistance to crack. In one characteristic village of the south last week, some of the people demonstrated what the problem...
...people can be sure the Communists will not return," a village elder suggested, "then the people will turn against them. But how can we be sure?" The answer lies in great part beyond the beleaguered man in the Freedom Palace of Saigon. "The Vietnamese people have the will," said Ngo Dinh Diem's ambassador to Washington, "but only the U.S. has the might...