Article about expected clashes between anti-communist and pro-nuetralist forces in South Vietnam

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Title
Article about expected clashes between anti-communist and pro-nuetralist forces in South Vietnam
Description
Original title: "interpretive", Keever's title: " Vietnamese Military Units Infuse [?] Political Power on Saigon Students," Article for the New York Herald Tribune about expected clashes between anti-communist and pro-nuetralist forces in South Vietnam
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t/a press tribune newyork mots ajoutes: 22 mots rayes: 15 B Deepe beverly deepe carte no. 44 15003 prowald interpretive one saigon vietnam is bracing for more trouble as aye major confrontation is expected in coming weeks between staunchly anticommunist armed forces and potentially proneutralist elements stoppara the battle started taking shape [XXXX indicating deletion] monday stoppara threehundred [deletion: probudd] buddhist dominated youths milled around prime ministers office monday afternoon dispersing only after realizing that american backed premier nguyen khanh was [deletion: notrptnot] [XXXX indicating deletion] elsewhere stop [deletion: almost simultaneously] 4 blocks away fourhundred students met at their headquarters on mainstreetve saigon comma impeding traffic comma while protesting against [deletion: yesterday] stunday socalled catholic coup and against [XXXX indicating deletion] former membersve ngo dinh diems predominantly catholic regime stoppara [insertion: another protest meeting is scheduled thursday stoppara] numbersve saigonese [deletion: suspect] indicate buddhist [insertion: leaders] are proneutralists [deletion: comma] and some are suspectedve benign procommunist stoppara the protest meetings [XXXX indicating deletion] openly ignored the [XXXX indicating deletion] sundays warning made by [deletion: revolt within armed forces] rebel army units stop the revolt appeared directed by anticommunist catholic generals and officers loyal to the rightwing dai viet political party stop the revolt appeared to be engineered dash notrptnot to oust premier khanh from office undash but to pressure him from making more concessions to probuddhist elements [deletion: comma] dash concessions which have had the effective waking the [insertion: authorityve] central government moredeepe t/a press tribune newyork mots ajoutes: 10 mots rayes: 20 B Deepe beverly deepe carte 44 15013 prowald interpretive two [deletion: the] mondays student demonstrations dash which had been planned before the socalled [deletion: sunday] coup [deletion: sunday] undash [deletion: too] occurred [deletion: monday] even as middlelevel buddhist prises in saigon tossed away their [deletion: saffron] chocolate brown robes and donned [insertion: [illegible]] [deletion: bus] civilian suits and [insertion: plopped] shortbrimmed hats over their shave heads stoppara quote we are in hiding cmaunquote oneve them whispered to aye friend stoppara highlevel buddhist monks comma including leader venerable thich tri quang comma had fled to [deletion: the pr] their stronghold provinces in central vietnam moren eighteen hours before the coup [XXXX indicating deletion] and have notprtnot yet returned stoppara the dimensionsve upcoming confrontation depends primarily [deletion: upon the decisiveness and quickness used by exec] on how quickly firmly and decisively khanh [deletion: reasserts his leadership] [XXXX indicates deletion] consolidates his position within the armed forces and his leadership of the government stop by monday [XXXX indicating deletion] afternoon he briefly consulted young militant army officers wanting hardline against buddhists and [XXXX indicating deletion] then decided to exile or reassign at least ten dissident officers stop these were known to [deletion: include the principal] stop [illegible] for [deletion: leaders of yesterdays] leadersve sunday bloodless revolt and to shift these key generals who were [deletion: lukewarm] neutral insteadve [deletion: supporting] for him stoppara t/a press tribune newyork mots ajoutes: 17 mots rayes: 21 beverly deepe carte 44 B Deepe 15014 15020 prowald interpretive three khanh also held brief cabinet meeting monday after [XXXX indicating deletion] oneve his top aides [XXXX indicating deletion] sided with rebel generals and called aye cabinet meeting [deletion: without khanhs permission] attempting to establish aye defacto government without khanh stop nguyen xuan oanh dash whom khanh had [deletion: appointed] named as acting prime minister [insertion: then dismissed him] undash accepted invitationve rebel generals sunday [deletion: comma] and called cabinet meeting stop someve the ministers came to prime ministers office but meeting notrptnot held stoppara khanh has been attempting to establish aye workable government with prominent [deletion: civilian] politicians and civilian leaders dash hopefully to be named sweek [deletion: comma] undash but hes [XXXX indicating deletion] been having difficulty [XXXX indicating deletion] convincing persons to join him stoppara atop these troubles theres growing impressions among khanhs associates and top aides that americans have notrptnot been supporting him [deletion: fully] completely stop american intelligence officer knew about threatve coup at least [XXXX indicating deletion] eighteen hours before happened stop while [XXXX indicating deletion] khanhs aides had [deletion: informed khanh of] given him some [deletion: aspectsve it] report comma he discounted [XXXX indicating deletion] them as rumors stop [deletion: khanhs] key [insertion: prokhanh] generals in saigon were preparing spend leisurely sunday dash twice them were going to the beach [insertion: undash when rebels hit saigon] stop khanh himself learned about coup from [insertion: aye vietnamese] army major dash one hour after rebel units disarmed police at checkpoint on city limitsve saigon stoppara moredeepe t/a press tribune newyork [XXXX indicating deletion] 15021 prowald interpretive four khanh was just preparing to leave his home in mountain resort cityve dalat only to go to airport to [deletion: catch pale] board saigonbound airplane stoppara rebel troop movements from [deletion: the south] mekong delta area [deletion: southve saigon] began pushing [insertion: northwards] towards saigon at [deletion: four a.m] four ayem sunday [insertion: stop] [deletion: morning and arrived outskirtsve saigon at eight stop this automatically alerts combat] unusual troop movements like this automatically alerts the combat operations center in the american military assistance command stop [insertion: to the bewilderment asian diplomats] two american advisors accompanied at least one battalion [deletion: from the south who] which had been ordered on an quote operation [deletion: to] stopunquote [XXXX indicating deletion] rebel leader briggen lam van phat comma [insertion: khans] former ministerve interior comma met with deputy american ambassador uuu alexis johnson three times during the [deletion: coup] uprising stop reliable sources indicated johnson reaffirmed american support for khanh stoppara but in the mindsve khans aides americans are supporting khanh [deletion: along with everyone else stoppara] dash but notrptnot very much enditdeepe mots ajoutes: 4 mots rayes: 14 beverly deepe carte 44 B Deepe
Date
1964, Aug.
Subject
Vietnam, 1961-1975; Demonstrations; Protest movements; Students--Political activity; Vietnam (Republic); Anti-communist movements
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6311
Size
20 x 26 cm
Container
B187, F2
Format
dispatches
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
Collector
Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language
English