South Viet Nam's Red terrorists generally concentrate their murderous raids on village chiefs, Vietnamese troops and police patrols, usually steering clear of the hundreds of Americans in the country who advise and equip the government's army. But last week, emboldened by recent guerrilla successes, they dared to attack the U.S. ambassador himself right in the capital of Saigon. Only nine weeks at his new post, Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr. was riding to his official residence for lunch when two men hurled a homemade hand grenade onto the roof of his car, fled on a motorcycle as Nolting's bodyguard...
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