Two important travelers passed through Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport one morning last week. Perhaps not entirely by coincidence, they did not meet. Flying in from the U.S. aboard a bright blue and white presidential Boeing 707 was the new U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam, Henry Cabot Lodge, back after 14 months for his second tour of duty. Bareheaded and smiling, the Brahmin promised his "best efforts" toward effecting a "true revolution which will make possible a new and better life for the Vietnamese people."
Departing a scant 21 hours earlier was Premier...
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