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The ‘Economist’ of Mbvembor 30th reported: ‘lbw uneasy tho military situation is in South Vietnam is roflected by the fact that President Lynion Johnson's first directive was an order to all departments concerned in: the American -.effort there to pull togetherses.
"...50me hours before Fresidont Johnson met his advisors moro than 200 Vietcong guerillas filtered into a special forces training camp outside Saigon, killed 37 govornmont troops and one American officer, and got away with a largo quantity of arms, To the south, in the Plain of Roeds, a critical situation has developod; in this area, Government control is bolieved to be nominal, and the Viotcong are now operating with hoavily armed battalions, Genera} Duong Van Minh, tho leader of the anti-Diem coup, has told the press he intends to am tho politico-religious Caodist sect, as tho Fronch did, and sot its faithful against tho Vietcong, It was General Minh who crushod the Caocdist and other sects in Saigon in 1955 on bchalf of Pros ident Diem, However, the new prime minister, ifr, Tho, who was Mr. Dion's vice-president, has kept links with the Cacodists and has now allowed thoir exiled “pope” to returns..."