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...spur-of-the-moment raid in Quang Nam province caught the Communists with their black pajamas down. The 17-chopper "Eagle" force dropped 54 Rangers on a company of surprised Viet Cong; the toll was 17 Red dead, 21 captured. To the precariously balanced Saigon regime of Premier Tran Van Huong, still hanging on despite another week of student demonstrations, the lesson was painfully clear: any operation plan more than eight hours in the making is bound to be found out by the Viet Cong. Just as the French learned during their long, losing Indo-China campaign, the South Vietnamese...
Although United States involvement has increased, the development of the political and military situation in Vietnam leaves much to be desired. In the past year Saigon has been ruled by Diem, Minh, Khanh, and now Tran Van Huong. The "strategic hamlet" program has been a failure; since January over 1000 government officials have been kidnaped or assassinated by the Viet Cong; battles with the Viet Cong have been larger than ever: and Viet Cong fire-power, especially against aircraft, has become more effective every month...
...South Viet Nam literally ungovernable? More than ever it looked that way last week as the latest regime was installed in Saigon, amid the usual grim expressions of resolve and the usual lofty promises of reform. Hardly had the new Premier, Tran Van Huong (TIME, Nov. 6) moved into his office when he ran head-on into the same murky obstacles that had undermined not only the government of Ngo Dinh...
...place its own chairman, a fragile elder statesman, Phan Khac Suu, 63, who spent eight years in prison for his opposition first to the French and later to Diem. At least theoretically, Suu was empowered to pick a civilian Premier to replace Khanh, reportedly asked Saigon Mayor Tran Van Huong, 61, a sometime porter, clerk-typist and school official, who says: "I was born under an unlucky star...
...even as the war heated up, the political ferment in Saigon was calming down. Tensions were eased by the departure of Lieut. General Tran Thien Khiem, the professional coup plotter and former member of South Viet Nam's ruling triumvirate who went into exile last week. Ousted by Premier Khanh in response to the wishes of Air Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky and his clique of young officers, Khiem departed Saigon at midweek. It was a lachrymose leavetaking. Tears gleamed in the eyes of General Duong Van ("Big") Minh as he bussed Khiem on both cheeks, and Khiem himself...