With South Viet Nam's presidential election coming up in October, it would seem that the potential candidates have plenty of immediate issues to argue about. But currently the hottest issue in the campaign is an episode from the past: the coup that ended with the murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu back in 1963.
The issue was raised by the man who led the Diem coup: Duong Van ("Big") Minh, a former general and one of the chief rivals of President Nguyen Van Thieu, who last week formally declared his candidacy. Two weeks ago,...
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