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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds are brave enough to appear unattractive and unsympathetic as well as funny in this slick, cynical film about a marital split...
...harsh critics would write off up to three-quarters' of the overall South Vietnamese forces as effective military units. And the critics are by no means all West Pointers. "I wonder if we will ever be as good as the Koreans," Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Cao Van Vien recently said to a friend. Of the ARVN's notori ously bad 25th division in the Delta, Vien says: "It is the worst division in the army-and perhaps in any army...
...eleven, only three are rated as having a real chance of winning: Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, whose vice-presidential running mate is Premier Nguyen Cao Ky; former Premier Tran Van Huong; National Assembly Speaker Phan Khac Suu. The Thieu-Ky ticket is still strongly favored because both men are well known, and they have army backing. Tran Van Huong is considered the leading civilian candidate. A Southerner with a large following in the Mekong Delta, Huong as Premier won considerable sympathy for his efforts to stabilize the government before the military replaced him in 1965. Says...
...revisited his native village. Last week the U.S. reported that three Viet Cong defectors, one of them Be's cousin, have identified Be as the Communist hero. The U.S. has dropped millions of leaflets aimed at the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, showing a healthy Nguyen Van Be holding Hanoi newspaper accounts of his vaunted end, have sent planes over Viet Cong areas broadcasting Be's voice. It was after such a plane passed over him that Be's cousin, Nguyen Va Ba, decided to defect. "I put my shovel down," he says, "and listened...
Faced with the mounting proof of their error, the Viet Cong last week issued grim orders that "anyone saying that Nguyen Van Be is alive will be shot on the spot." Meantime, Be's name has been put at the top of a list of those marked for death, and a price of 2,000,000 piasters (about $17,000) has been put on his head. Viet Cong agents have been caught bugging the phones at the security house in Saigon to which Be has been transferred under heavy guard. Be's home village...