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When recently a couple of dissident South Vietnamese air force officers used two American AC-6 fighter planes to drop American-supplied napalm bombs on Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential palace in Saigon, the incident only dramatized the very uncertain character of United States' involvement with the South Vietnam regime. These pilots were not aberrant malcontents with a history of disloyalty; the leader of the attack was a squadron operations officer known as one of the best pilots in the South Vietnamese air force. The other, who managed to escape to the Cambodian border, described himself as a nationalist...
...second-floor study of Saigon's yellow stucco Freedom Palace, South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem was absorbed in a biography of George Washington, the gift of a recent U.S. visitor. At the sudden roar of an airplane engine, he looked up, hurried out to the balcony in time to see a fighter plane swooping toward him through the early morning overcast...
...President Diem reform his regime; he will have to do some reforming of U.S. operations as well. The first U.S. military mission in South Viet Nam dates from 1954, when Lieut. General John ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel helped organize the Vietnamese army for pro-Western President Ngo Dinh Diem. Next came Lieut. General Samuel ("Hangin' Sam") Williams, a leathery, irascible veteran who was convinced that when war came it would be a Korean-style invasion from the north with the Communists pouring tank columns and road-bound infantry divisions over the border. Williams was succeeded...
Some observers on the spot have gloomily concluded that the war to save strategic South Viet Nam from the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas cannot be won under President Ngo Dinh Diem, despite his promises to reform his rigid, often corrupt regime. The critics have no alternatives to offer, and the U.S. is still backing Diem full force, but there is a growing discussion of the case against...
...MADAME NGO DINH...