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...last month. Greater U.S. involvement has also boosted South Vietnamese morale. Still, no U.S. or South Vietnamese officials were naive enough to believe that the tide had yet turned in the overall battle. Political instability is still rife in Saigon, where last week a brief mutiny threatened Admiral Chung Tan Cang, boss of the South Vietnamese navy, and set the capital aquiver with coup rumors. The mutiny died away, but no sparks are ever totally extinguished in Saigon. And for all the government success on the ground, Hanoi, with its great reserves of manpower and stubbornness, still calls the final...
Even more elaborate were the preparations concerning Senior Captain Tran Van Tan of the central intelligence organization. Tan and three other Viet Cong agents were sent south to set up a clandestine radio station. The move was by sea, and the fledgling spies were outfitted with false identity papers, voting cards and fishermen's permits, then sent aboard an actual fishing boat. They were even trained in fishing skills so their covers would hold up. Aboard the boat they carried six sealed boxes containing guns, a generator, several radios and a bundle of South Vietnamese currency. But no sooner...
...said Mrs. Maxwell Taylor. But she, as well as Westmoreland's wife and three children, was ticketed for departure along with the rest. "We don't want to go," said Westmoreland's 16-year-old daughter Katherine as she bade friends farewell at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport. When a teen-aged acquaintance taunted Katherine that the move was her father's fault, she bristled: "It is not. It's the fault of Lynda Bird's father, not mine...
...bulletproof glass and rimmed with scores of guards. Lady Bird was in a brilliant red dress and matching coat, Muriel Humphrey in a light-blue wool dress she had made herself. Both men's faces glistened in the glow of spotlights, giving them the look of a ruddy tan. And both seemed extraordinarily happy. Johnson appeared to recognize at least one individual in each of the 50 states' flotillas. Now he clapped heartily, now he smiled a big Texas grin, now he shot an affectionate wink, now he made the O.K. sign with his thumb and forefinger...
...with the rest of the magazine, which came off rotary letter presses. For the overseas editions, which are always printed offset, the problem was different: press limitations prohibited use of eight colors, so a pattern had to be devised for use of five colors-red, blue, black, yellow and tan...