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...Washington, the South Vietnamese embassy formally repudiated Mme. Nhu's statement as representing only her views and not that of the government. The disclaimer was particularly intriguing, because the ambassador, Tran Van Chuong, is Mme. Nhu's father, who violently disapproves of her ?and only partly because the government expropriated his vast property seven years ago. She in turn disapproves of him, once called him a coward...
...Western world clings fondly, and fairly successfully, to the ideal that athletic rivalry between nations should tran scend political differences. At the fourth Asian Games in Djakarta last week, Indonesia's President Sukarno tried to have the best of both worlds - and dealt supra national sportsmanship in the Far East a possibly fatal blow...
Nearly 700 years ago, when Kublai Khan's Mongol hordes swept out of the north, Viet Nam's legendary military hero, Tran Hung Dao, sparked the courage of his beleaguered army by having them tattoo on their arms the words "Sat Dat" (Let's kill the Mongols). Though outnumbered more than 2 to 1, the Vietnamese routed the Mongols and drove them out of Viet...
Each hour, radio reports on battle progress pour into the headquarters of the U.S. Military Assistance Command on Saigon's Tran Hung Dao Street. Here, in a spare, map-hung office, behind an uncluttered grey desk, sits the new chief of the U.S. military mission, General Paul Donal Harkins, 57, who holds the top command in the one spot in the world where U.S. troops are involved in a shooting-if undeclared-war against Communists. Symbolic of his task are the three flags behind his desk: the U.S. Stars and Stripes, the yellow and red banner of South Viet...
...greater popular following or a stronger gift for political intrigue. One possible candidate: suave, wily Mohammed ben Bella, the F.L.N. 's "iron man," who is scheduled to be released from five years of French imprisonment at the ceasefire, along with four other F.L.N. leaders. But for a tran sition period at least, Benkhedda is the man in charge...