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...rented rice fields side by side with his peasant neighbors. Diem himself left politics before World War II rather than work with the French. In that tradition, Nhu, his wife and family were opposed both to the Red Viet Minh "army of liberation" and to the French with their puppet Emperor, Bao Dai. When the Viet Minh overran Hué, they shot Diem's oldest brother and the brother's only son, for months held Diem himself captive before turning him loose. Nhu and Can both escaped from the Reds, but Mme. Nhu, her infant daughter and her aged mother...
Along with the agreement, the U.S., Britain and Russia issued a brief communique that contained a Kremlin concession of sorts. The Russians had sought a nonaggression pact between NATO and the Warsaw Pact powers that would, in effect, concede legality to the regime of East German Puppet Walter Ulbricht. Moscow had hinted that without simultaneous agreement on a nonaggression pact, it would not sign a test ban. But the Soviets settled for a promise by the U.S. and Britain to take up the issue with their NATO allies in an effort to find an acceptable formula. The communique also reported...
Surprises All Around. That was stretching it some. Violence and confusion have been the country's unhappy lot ever since the military toppled Arturo Frondizi 16 months ago and installed Puppet President José Maria Guido in his place. As the once prosperous land of grain and meat fell into economic chaos (the cost of living soared 50% last year), the military promised constitutional elections and a return to democracy. But the soldiers could not agree on when to hold elections, or how much democracy to allow the 3,000,000 followers of exiled Dictator Juan...
...Russian TU-114 turboprop at the end of its regular Moscow-Havana run. He certainly did. As secretly as he left, Fidel Castro had finally returned from his five-week visit to the Soviet Union. Still grinning, he went to an airport phone, waited as an aide dialed puppet President Osvaldo Dorticos, then stepped up and wrapped a handkerchief around the mouthpiece. "Dorticos!" he shouted. "This is Fidel speaking from Tbilisi." Then he gave up the game: "I am at the airport. I just arrived on the TU." With that, El Maximo Lider hailed a taxicab and rattled into town...
...another political crisis, eight more Cabinet members lost their jobs, bringing to 53 the number of Cabinet casualties in the 13 months since President Arturo Frondizi was deposed by the military. In to replace them came Cabinet members Nos. 54 through 56, with five posts still vacant. As puppet President José María Guido ran through candidates, it was getting harder to fill the posts. A new Education Minister was found only an hour before the swearing-in ceremony; he had to race home to change his clothes, delaying things for 30 minutes...