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...bureau in 1958. His assignments have included India's border clashes with China and the Indo-Pakistani war waged over Kashmir. Recently Shepherd toured the refugee camps that line the Indo-East Pakistani border. David Greenway, whose most recent beat was the United Nations, formerly served in the Saigon and Bangkok bureaus. Last week he visited the insurgent forces. "The countryside," he says, "looks quite like Viet Nam, and with all the airpower, armor and artillery the rebels face, it must have been like visiting the Viet Cong in the early days of that other...
...Nguyen Van Thieu, who last week formally declared his candidacy. Two weeks ago, Minh told some reporters that Thieu was at least partially responsible for the killing of the brothers. As Minh told it, Thieu, then a colonel in command of the South Vietnamese 5th Division, was to surround Saigon's cream-colored Gia Long Palace and "protect the life of President Diem" by taking him into custody. But Thieu got to the palace too late, Minh said, and the Ngos had already slipped away. Their bodies turned up the following day, bound and bullet-riddled, inside a South...
Last week it was Thieu's turn. In a Saigon press conference, he called Big Minh "a coward and a liar" and blamed him for the murders, quoting him as saying at the time of the coup that "the easiest way is to assassinate Diem...
Doomed Brothers. Why the debate? Minh might have been trying to minimize the damage he stands to suffer when the text of a long-secret 1964 post-mortem on the coup hits the newsstands in Saigon. The document, whose authenticity has not been verified by any of the principals involved, is a transcript of a tape of an alleged informal two-day "trial" of the coup leaders held in March 1964 by Nguyen Khanh, the stumpy general who overthrew the Minh junta three months after the Diem coup because he feared it was going "neutralist...
...while. As yet, Minh is not saying whether he would be willing to live with the N.L.F.-perhaps because it could get him arrested for treason. "It is too early to talk of my program now," Minh told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud in an interview in his modern Saigon villa last week. "If I were to say I favor a coalition government, I might find myself in exile in Bangkok again." During his 90-minute talk, Minh made these other points...