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363-07148 to 363-07151.pdf
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363-07148 to 363-07151
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Title
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Article about an attack on a U.S. officers' billet
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Description
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Keever's title: "Communists blow up U.S. Officers' Billet after Gun Battle in Saigon", Article about an attack on a U.S. officers' billet and what it means for South Vietnamese politics and the outcome of the war
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Transcript
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(Morgan Gandy)
SAIGON, 01200, (UPIS)-The Communist destruction of the
American military billet called Victoria Friday morning is regarded
Zo
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as a significant milestone away from winning the anti-Communist
war here.
The last hopes of any type of victory in this political-military
war by the American and South Vietnamese forces seems to be fading.
The final indications that the anti-Communist military
regime can survive seem to be passing.
The Vietnamese political trends are slowly gliding to res
b towards aye series of provisional and interim neutralist
which will bequeath o to American combat units
governments,
"either aye camouflaged retreat, if notrptnot aye humiliating
defeat, one Western diplomat explained.
(More Miller-BD)
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first add-morgan gandy-saigon
ReAction
x x x diplomat explained xx
The significance is that while the overt Communist Viet Cong
can continue their military acts of terror--even in Saigon-the
HOME nationalist elements in the volit volatile northern
provinces are still choosing top openly, if notrptnot deliberately,
tox them to attack the Vietnamese government and the American
military presence rather than the Communists.
In short, the nationalist elements in the northern
provinces, possibly infiltrated by covert Communist subversives,
are more anti-government and anti-American than the they are
against the Communists.
Today,
Viet Cong Communists staged aye running gum
battle on the streets of Saigon, and then blew up the American
officers billet, killing three Americans and three Vietnamese,
woud wounding seventy two Americans and eleven Vietnamese.
Yet, four hundred miles north of Saigon, in the hotbed of revolt
revolting hotbed of Hue, Buddhist-led demonstrators held as a
"virtual prisoner an important general dispatched from Saigon
to make a compromise with the anti-government dissident elements
LIEUT
But,
General Phan Xuan Chieu, who is secretary-general (or no. three)
in the ruling ten-man,
obtaining a compromise,
anti-Communist military junta, instead of
was forced to march to the Hue radio station
by rabid students, and then was "quasi-detained" in their struggle
committee headquarters.
(More Miller--BD)
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second add--morgan gandy-saigon
x x x committee headquarters x
"The seizure of General Chieu makes impossible any compromise
between the Saigon government and the Buddhist Ted Buddhist-fomented
dissidents," one highly reliable source explained. "Nobody ever
there
thought that the could be a compromise in the first place,
but this is the final evidence that are attempts to
do so are only wasting time. And wasting time now my means to
help the Communists."
In both Hue, aunts
the military discipline of the
Vietnamese armed forces appeared to be shattered as reports
reached here that the ten-thousand man First Infantry
Vietnamese Infantry Division was also turning against the
Saigon government and would refuse to V obey any orders
to maintain law and order in the face of the rising tide of
anti-government, anti-American disaban disturbances, disorders
and possible future violence.
In Saigon, the political cohesiveness of the Vietnamese
armed forces which is considered to be the oxyx solom major
anti-Communist political force in the country-also seemed to be
broken. The seizure of General Chieu would have a disunifying
impact within the ten-man ruling junta itself,
sources believed,
while at the same time, Vietnamese government sources said that
executive chief of staff of the themamese at the Vietnamese High Frida
WAS
Command, Maj. Gen. Linh Quang Vien, wombitmkrexmonevedmn is transferred
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and will be re-assigned as Minister of Interior.
(More Miller-BD)
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third add-morgan gandy-saigon
x x x of interior X X X.
The move 18
Foted here
The transfer of the Ministry of Interior-which is significant
in that it controls the Vietnamese police-from cvi civilian to matan
military hands is regarded here as a tipoff that the Saigon regime
may possibly attempt to crackdown on extremist and subversive
troublemakers, especially in the northern provinces.
In the face of these internal political tu turbulence,
the Vietnamese anti-Communists had hoped that the rock of stability
in the polizioni plecture would be the American official position
in Washington.
Instead the call by Vice President Hubert Humphrey this week
for a non-aligned South Vietnam and South East Asia, in the words
of aye Vietnamese government official, was "the hand-writing on the
wall. The Americans are tossing in the sponge here."
The Communist destruction of the American billet this morning,
at this crucial juncture, is considered likely to widen the cleavage
as well as
between the Americans and the Vietnamese at all levels,
increase
Communis
further political intimidation of the XX wealthy property owning
class us
classes.
"Now,
"The Vietnamese government has been clamping down for more taxes
from the wealthy property owners--even though this is their economic
base of support for the regime," one reliable source explained.
the Viet Cong through terrorism are warning these property owners
to deal with the Communists. So, even the rich class in Saigon
is caught between the hammer and the anvil."
Pit MillER-BDF
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Date
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1966, Apr. 1
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Soldiers--Billeting; Vietnam (Republic)--Politics and government; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B188, F3
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
