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Predictions Off. The Communists' enemy No. 1 is South Viet Nam's tough President Ngo Dinh Diem, 60, and their drive is given added fury by the fact that after the Geneva conference that divided Indo-China seven years ago, just about everybody predicted that Diem could never last. Not only has he lasted, but South Viet Nam has prospered to become an even more tempting target for the Reds-and a standing contrast to the poverty-stricken Communist North. Helped along by $150 million in U.S. aid each year, the South is a hard-working country...
...border to Cambodia, where they maintain a hospital and supply dumps. Though the Geneva International Control Commission has protested the attacks, North Viet Nam replied bluntly last month that "this struggle will not only be carried on but will score ever greater victories until the final defeat of Ngo Dinh Diem...
Calm attended the re-election of President Ngo Dinh Dicm in South Vietnam this week. 70 per cent of the voters turned out to give Ngo a margin of victory sure to be looked on as one rare and gratifying sign that the West still maintains a position of vigor and strength in Southeast Asia--a balm badly needed after Laos. There is, in fact, so much heartening news from South Vietnam these days that one forgets how precarious the situation there really is. Announcements that the small nation's chronic trade deficit is shrinking, that its agricultural production...
There are, to be sure, links between the guerrillas of the South and the Northern Communists. It is, though, entirely too easy for Ngo to blame all unrest on a baleful Northern influence; he has adopted the habit of labelling all serious opposition to him as Communist, a device which enables him and his Western allies to forget that Vietnamese officials are corrupt, land reform is slow, and many peasants are reported to feel that their interests are no concern of a government that represents city merchants and a bureaucracy...
Before the Geneva settlement, many rural portions of the South had been under local Communist rule for years. When the Communists withdrew to the North, there were pockets of vacuum left which Ngo's government never really filled. Add to this a picture of collapsing provincial and local authority in areas that were not under the Communists, and one begins to see how Ngo's very strength has been a liability: his presence in the country has prevented any delegation of responsibility to local leadership. Clearly Ngo is needed in South Vietnam, but it is equally clear that his central...