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...aide. At a vacation retreat in Palm Beach, President Kennedy pondered a speech he plans to make within a few weeks calling for added defense expenditures and for a deeper spirit of sacrifice among the people. Vice President Lyndon Johnson sped out to faraway Saigon to deliver to President Ngo Dinh Diem a top-secret letter containing Kennedy's offer to aid South Viet Nam with new infusions of money and advisers in its struggle against Communist subversion and guerrilla warfare (see following story...
...next morning Johnson rode to Independence Palace, accompanied by Ambassador Frederick Nolting Jr., for a meeting with President Ngo Dinh Diem. In the highceilinged, blue-carpeted salon on the second floor, Diem greeted Johnson profusely, motioned him to a brocaded chair. The business before the two men: South Viet Nam's long struggle against Communist subversion, and how the Kennedy Administration plans to help the Diem government win that struggle...
...take a stand in Communism's next Southeast Asia target: South Viet Nam, already infested with Communist guerrillas and terrorists (see THE WORLD). The geography and politics are more favorable than in Laos: South Viet Nam faces on the sea, and the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem is intensely committed to the task of fighting Communism...
...military aid for South Viet Nam, to some $80 million a year. Kennedy has already sent General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman to Southeast Asia to reassure Thailand's Marshal Sarit Thanarat and South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. This week he will dispatch Lyndon Johnson to Saigon to see "what further steps could most usefully be taken" to bolster South Viet Nam against the Communist tide...
...gathered last week, the women wearing their best tunics and diaphanous silk trousers. There was scattered gunfire as Communist guerrillas raided a polling place here and there. But when the returns were in, 75% of the electorate had defied Communist threats to kill anyone who voted, gave embattled President Ngo Dinh Diem a massive vote of confidence and another five-year term in office. Running against two unknowns, Diem piled up 88% of the vote...