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...salutations from the Viet Cong, whose mortarmen thus welcomed the U.S. Vice President to Viet Nam and attempted to turn last week's inaugural reception for President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky into a wake. Fired from the roof of a shack in downtown Sai gon, the shells hit in the palace garden, precisely where Humphrey, Thieu, Ky, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General William C. Westmoreland would have been standing had rain not forced the party indoors...
...pack horses carrying nine tons of opium. He had no intention of paying the $80,000 in tolls usually collected on a shipment of that size passing through the Chinese generals' territory. When the caravan reached the Mekong River and the Laotian border town of Ban Houei Sai, the Chinese irregulars were waiting...
Down with Diem. During the Diem regime, the Viet Cong slowly gathered momentum. Diem's government tended to be remote from the people, and the rural administrators sent out from Sai gon were seldom honest, nor were they native to their assigned areas. They were considered foreigners by the peasants, and the V.C. were quick to exploit and exacerbate grievances. They harped on local issues, set up cells, village committees and small military units. Political terrorism was started, and the first armed attacks began...
...blaze of huge red and yellow Vietnamese flags and a blare of sound trucks. Up and down the narrow nation, posters blossomed bearing the arcane symbols of the candidates' slates: the Lamp, the Lotus Blossom, the Cock & Hand, the Woman with a Basket. Declared banners and placards in Sai gon: TO VOTE IS TO BEGIN BUILDING DEMOCRACY...
Buddhist Demonstrations. In the Sai gon government's ouster of popular, powerful I Corps Commander Thi fort night ago, the politically ambitious Bud dhist bonzes thought they had a torch to hold to the feet of the government...