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There were other intimations, too. A thousand demonstrators, mostly Tocsin people demanding American disengagement from Vietnam, greeted Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu when she came to Ringe Tech in October 1963. "At Columbia they threw eggs at me like I was a peasant," Nhu complained, "but Harvard was incredible." And in May 1964, Harvard saw its first semi-political riot in years: police used dogs and clubs to break up 1500 demonstrators trying to save 70 sycamore trees, slated for replacement by a Mem Drive underpass at Boylston Street (the plans were later revised). Of course, it was only semi-political...
Last week, the name of William Shockley aroused passions here at Harvard when the Law School Forum, a lecture-sponsoring group with a history of controversial speakers (Fidel Castro, Malcolm X, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu), announced that it would hold a debate between Shockley and Roy Innis, national director of the Congress for Racial Equality...
...stop, Lon Nol's puppet strings will be cut, and Cambodia will eventually return to peace and national sovereignty under the leadership of the revolutionary Khmer Rouge. Lon Nol probably already has a mansion on the French Riviera picked out, where he can join other reactionary luminaries like Madame Nhu and a host of South Vietnamese generals...
...whether the Cambodian regime can survive until the shooting is somehow stopped. Washington officials frankly worry about the similarity between Cambodia today and South Viet Nam in the early 1960s. Saigon was then ruled by the aloof and autocratic Ngo Dinh Diem and his ambitious younger brother Ngo Dinh Nhu; they were toppled in a 1963 coup that had active U.S. encouragement. Cambodia has the somewhat mystical Lon Nol, paralyzed on his left side as the result of a 1971 stroke, and his younger brother Lon Non, a vain and ruthless army general. Lon Non is now the regime...
Other mobs formed and swirled through the city. One of them, about 5,000 strong, tore off the head of a huge statue they thought to be a likeness of Madame Nhu, Diem's sister-in-law. They wheeled it through the streets, then joyously rolled it up and down the steps of the National Assembly over and over again. Up the street, another group heaved rocks into the bookstore owned by one of Diem's brothers, tossed the books and religious objects into the gutter and put the torch to the pile of rubble. The people danced...