Saigon, South Vietnam, 1963: A Vietnam marine celebrates on the streets after the successful coup deposing president Ngo Dinh Diem on Nov. 1, 1963, by a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam ...

To PRESIDENT Ngo Dinh Diem and his family, the Buddhist crisis last summer was a cleverly contrived political conspiracy designed to bring down the government by a coup d’etat. They blamed the ...

SOUTH VIET NAM’S President Nguyen Van Thieu has never been a demonstrative sort, but last week he was clearly elated by President Nixon’s address about the war. “It is the greatest and most brilliant ...

MISSION IN TORMENT By John Meek-I’m. 318 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. The overthrow and subsequent murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963 opened a political Pandora’s box in Saigon. Since that ...