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Word from Saigon was that Taylor was determined to force Khanh out as army commander-in-chief and was trying to split him off from "young Turk" generals who two weeks ago, with Khanh's backing, had dissolved the Saigon government's feeble legislature (TIME, Jan. 1). Washington, on the other hand, insisted that a compromise was being worked out with Khanh to restore a greater measure of civilian government...
...Taylor, Khanh sent season's greetings to American troops in Viet Nam, warmly thanking them for their help in "our struggle for the defense of freedom." Khanh was shuttling back and forth from his resort-headquarters at Cap St. Jacques, where he huddled secretly with the Young Turk officers who, with Khanh, had outraged Taylor by toppling the civilian High National Council. At other times Khanh was seen speeding through Saigon in his green Mercedes, or bustling about his well-guarded villa inside Vietnamese naval headquarters...
...part, tightened the screws on Khanh. U.S. advisers in the field were urged to try to ease tensions by discussing the situation with their Vietnamese counterparts. When Khanh demanded that the Americans stop "talking politics," the U.S. 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...
Three Japanese, two Bulgarians, two Russians and a Turk won gold medals in freestyle wrestling, while Hans Zdralzila of Czechoslovakia won the middleweight weightlifting title. The Netherlands took the gold medal in team bicycle road racing...
...travel piece. But his offensive eye is piercing. In Madrid, the light has "the radiance of enamel: in the hot months it is pure fire, refined to the incandescence of a furnace, and it is like the gleam of armour in the cold winter." He is fascinated by the Turks' capacity for almost trancelike relaxation. "No one," he says, "sits quite so relaxedlly, expertly, beatifically as a Turk; he sits with every inch of his body; his very face sits." In Iran, Pritchett isolates the country's cruelty in a single, compelling anecdote about his hosts: they drive...