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...sort of rebellious trouble at least once a year. More recently, the agitations that ultimately toppled Diem, then General Khanh, then Chief of State Phan Khac Suu, all began in Hué and rippled southward to Saigon like an infection. And for the last month, the waves of political unrest aimed at swamping Premier Nguyen Cao Ky have been rolling out of Hué in measured but ominously mounting intensity across Viet...
...launch military operations there to regain control. Ky blamed Da Nang's mayor, a 37-year-old doctor, who has been in office since January. Warned Ky: "Either Da Nang's mayor is shot or the government will fall." Whether so dire a threat would quell the unrest, or simply fan it, a nervous Saigon-and an anxious Washington-waited...
Comrade Wang Tung-Hsing's Report on Ideological Conditions in the Central Garrison Because of the far-reaching effects of the class struggle, especially the Two-Road Struggle in the villages on ideology, and also the natural disaster which happened last year and this year, there is some unrest in thought among a part of our comrades. The soldier Chang Lichen said: "At present, what the peasants eat in the villages is even worse than what dogs ate in the past. At that time dogs ate chaff and grain." Commune members ask: "Is Chairman Mao going to allow...
...Viet Cong, of course, were quick to exploit the unrest in I Corps. Last week Red agents infiltrated some of the demonstrations in Hue and took solace from the two-day general strike that cut down traffic and slowed unloading at Danang's busy port. That sent Premier Ky to the nationwide radio at week's end with a warning that the government would "move strongly" to quell agitation. But Ky moderated the threat with a promise that South Viet Nam would be given a new constitution by November at the latest, and other officials hinted that national...
Whereas White concedes the difficulties in trying to extend aid to Africa, Azikiwe unhesitatingly labels American efforts "neo-colonial." His are the familiar complaints against the United States' moral crusade against communism: charges of economic exploitation and manipulation, cries of CIA conspiracies and engineered coups. Azikiwe maintains that the unrest in Ghana leading to Nkrumah's downfall was caused by an international capitalist 'cocoa conspiracy" which depressed the price of cocoa, Ghana's staple crop. Apparently the increased production of cocoa in Nigeria and the Ivory Coast had little to do with the falling price. Azikiwe is justified in condemning...