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...made noises designed to encourage opposition to Diem. But South Viet Nam being what it is, potential rebels did not want to move without virtually a written contract for U.S. support. Meanwhile the U.S. tried to place the odium of the crackdown on Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu (Libra),* and new Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge (Cancer) managed to suggest, without saying anything publicly, that he did not like what was going...
...seething student population. In the city's crowded marketplace and near Saigon University, rifle-toting combat police in camouflage uniforms arrested all youths of high school and college age in sight and hauled them off to detention camps on the outskirts. Throughout the city, blue-uniformed members of Nhu's Republican Youth Organization made door-to-door calls, warning against public criticism of the government on pain of arrest. Schools were closed until further notice, and scheduled elections for the normally rubberstamp, 123-member National Assembly were postponed...
...Generals. At week's end martial law was gradually eased, and some Buddhists and students were freed. There was little doubt that Nhu was in large measure responsible for running things, but there was no evidence that he was supplanting his brother; as far as could be detected, the two were working in harmony. Directly under Nhu, two officers seemed to be in command: be spectacled, pockmarked Colonel Le Quang Tung, in charge of the Special Forces, and Brigadier General Ton That Dinh, commander of the III Army Corps and military governor of Saigon, a dapper graduate...
...Diem and Nhu evidently intended to vest real military power in another, very different officer, whose loyalty the Ngo family can count on, Colonel Le Quang Tung, commander under Nhu of the special forces. A devout Catholic, Tung comes from central Viet Nam, birthplace of the Ngo family, apparently has no political ambitions, and was once a top official in Nhu's secret organization, the Can Lao Party. As long as a month ago, large units of special forces were moved into Saigon under Colonel Tung's command. The big question is whether Tung can keep control...
...much authority slip from its hands under the martial law proclamation. Taking over the functioning of all government ministries, the army for the first time has a viable power structure of its own. It may well stay loyal as long as Diem remains in the presidential palace, but Nhu is vastly unpopular with most of the military commanders except Tung. The army immediately tried to dissociate itself from the Buddhist crackdown. All official bulletins from the army-controlled government information center pointedly mentioned that Nhu's special forces, and not the army, had wrecked the pagodas...