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Shotgun Semester. U.S. officials hastily huddled with Junta Boss General Nguyen Khanh, who had worries of his own; a flurry of rumors suggested that army rivals were plotting to overthrow his regime. Saigon police began a district-by-district sweep through the capital, rounded up more than 100 suspected Viet Cong collaborators. But it was doubtful that the Saigon government, its once efficient security police debilitated by endless reorganization, could guarantee the protection of Americans should the Viet Cong continue the terrorist attacks. As a result, U.S. forces for the first time had to take up direct police functions...
Added to these unhappy statistics is a growing political instability. The real significance of the January 30 coup is not that it dashed the hopes nurtured by the overthrow of Diem--these hopes had already disappeared--but that it points the way to more coups and more unrest. It would be ridiculous to place any great hopes in General Kanh as a Vietnamese messiah, when the success of any government appears to rest on whose troops are in Saigon at a given moment...
Quijano rejected both coexistence and an invasion by U.S. troops as possible solutions to the Cuban problem. He conceded, however, that Castro would be "very difficult to overthrow" at the present time...
...subsequent reshuffle of commands, Minh irked his seasoned fellow general by assigning Khanh to the 1st Corps in the North, one area that the Diem regime had pretty well cleared of Viet Cong guerrillas. However, Khanh firmly denied that it was personal resentment or ambition that prompted him to overthrow Minh. His sole aim, he insisted, was to forestall a takeover by "neutralist" agents who, said he, had been "blatantly" slipped into South Viet Nam for the purpose by France's Charles de Gaulle. Khanh charged, moreover, that the four generals arrested with Minh included a clique within...
...settlers, it has been largely spared the racial bitterness that has riven Kenya. However, in the wake of the uprising that came close to toppling his friend Julius Nyerere in neighboring Tanganyika, the usually affable Kaunda warned grimly last week: "We shall crush ruthlessly any attempt to overthrow this government by unconstitutional means...