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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khanh before his ouster by the Buddhists last year, had insisted on a civilian government that lacked the backing of either the army or the Buddhists-the only real forces in South Viet Nam. Last week the two forces combined, at least temporarily, and the civilian regime of Premier Tran Van Huong folded without a sound...
...embassy in Saigon, Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and U.S. Military Advisory Chief William Westmoreland gazed down on the violent scene. Massed in the street before the embassy was a cursing, fist-shaking throng led by some 300 yellow-robed Buddhist monks and nuns, screaming demands that the U.S. abandon Premier Tran Van Huong -and thinly veiled invitations that it get out of South Viet...
...Committee of Honor." A little less noisy but equally heated was the continuing political war in Saigon. A "committee of honor," consisting of a representative acting for Premier Tran Van Huong, plus Deputy U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson acting for Ambassador Maxwell Taylor, plus two military officers representing Commander-in-Chief General Nguyen Khanh, met to negotiate. Khanh's lads complained that the military Young Turks, who overthrew the ineffectual High National Council, had been "seriously insulted" by Taylor after he had demanded that coup-minded officers cease interfering with the civilian government. The officers got no apology...
...embassy ignored him. The embassy was also working on the Young Turks, one of whom said of the Khanh-Turk relationship: "Each side is using the other. Later we shall see who wins." Still in the middle was what was left of the civilian government of Premier Tran Van Huong and aging, ceremonial Chief of State Phan Khac Suu. After a week of frightened silence, Huong and Suu came out with a communique urging a measure of good will on all sides to achieve "a fitting solution to escape from the present crisis...
...quite a few it was a second exodus: they first moved when the Reds took over North Viet Nam ten years ago. North or South, Catholics are treated more harshly by the Reds than are Buddhists. There are, of course, many Buddhists staunchly fighting the Viet Cong-both Premier Tran Van Huong and Military Chief Nguyen Khanh are Buddhists-but the Catholics as a group have always seemed to be tougher antiCommunists...