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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 2-22-1965 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1965). Winona Daily News. 605. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/605 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Cartoonist Bill Maul din on Scene for New Viet Nam Coup By BILL MAULDIN ity Khanh because his brother position was now in the line of bassador, was on, but was un- Ky's air force should decide to they would be wiped out with- at best and truly wild at times my little camera. like this. SAIGON—Here is my garbled is a Communist." fire we should move, but I found able to get a conclusive an- be loyal. Among the planes in hours. The plane took off from a account of Saigon's garbled Two civilians told me Tran they had already done so. These swer. grounded by this action was an While we were there we were Everybody seemed sort of short taxi strip, hopping right coup. Thien Khiezn, South Vietnamese people are experienced in this Air France jet bound for Tokyo told that the government had drunk with tension. Some of the over the hostile tanks on Uw sort of tiling. A MINOR functionary down- and containing among its pas- Tt started shortly after ambassador to Washington will stairs hinted that the ambassa- now repossessed the station. people, especially rebel officers , runway. 1 p.m. Large crowds gathered to sengers seven Russian men. local time Friday while I was be the real head of the govern- dor had been unhappy with The same tanks still guarded •were positively glassy-eyed and Tbe big Air France jet still ment. watch the show from the side- Khanh but could <hange liis The Russians were huddled it, with the same crews. The euphoric. sat there, with no sign of the eating with friends around the in a corner of the airport lounge. corner from the waterfront "You mean," I asked incredu- lines. mind. The functionary addled only change had been in the Russians. Life is getting grim for people They looked angry and scared. THE AIRPORT gates and the home of Maj. Gen. Nguyen lously, "the ambassador is sup- that he was in no way qualified command — very economical, ends of the runways -were con- Khanh. porting a coup against bis own here. Perhaps a good coup ' is to speak tor his excellency. We offered them beer on a at least. I HEADED back for town the only form of entertainment tray, but they recoiled as from trolled by insurgent forces while through the rebel lines, then The waiter told us what was government?" I returned to the square at At this point I decided to call the ramp area and the inner left. about 3 p.m. and saw the coup snakes. I gathered that they through the government lines, going on. We hurried to. the Not yet, they assured me, but suspected we had engineered it "the convertible coup ." taxiways were held by tbe gov- he will make his position clear Suddenly a covey of airplanes leader himself, Col. Pham and got stuck in a huge traffic scene, where we saw tanks the whole affair to trap them Back at the waterfront every- ernment. jam consisting of rebel tanks rumble into Me Linh Square when he sees how things go. loaded with rockets swooped low Ngoc Thao, mount a tank td bystanders give a speech.. and were trying to poison them. thing was quiet, with tanks and Both sides were most gener- and government tanks eyeball with guns pointed at the mili- In the midst of tnis illumina- over us. 1 asked ous about letting the press whose side the planes were on. He announced that the coup ships no longer threatening to eyeball and bumping each tary leader's place. ting conversation the military IT WAS A quiet b-nt tense each other. I was unable to through. I noted that the rebels other with their gun muzzles. Apparently he had hopped out situation approached a crisis. They told me the planes were was to give the government night, with a strict curfew. the air force com- real prestige and stability and spend enough time there to were not looking so euphoric Not with intent to kin, but be* of town just in time. But they The square is on the river directed by and assumed things were not mander, Brig. Gen. TJguyen Cao that Ambassador Khiem would Aiter 9 Saturday morning I learn whether the tanks were cause the tanks are big and tht kept the house covered any- front. The navy, which consists went with Keyes Beecl, a Chi- now loyal or the ships had ' going well for them. streets are small. way. of two LSTs (landing ship-tanks) Ky. be coming home to take over. "We think he's a Xhanh man , Well , I thought, that sure cago Daily News correspondent, turned rebel. I saw Prime Minister Phan I asked a tanker if he was a and some gunboats and is or to the radio station. It had been I heard exactly three shots, but he could change his mind," commits Khiem. Airplanes were still zooming Huy Quat board a small array which could have been back* rebel. He looked at me as if I was loyal to Khanh, arrived at seized by insurgents and was. around, but I learned that the were crazy and said: "I do what flank speed and began pointing I was told. The airplanes, still uncommit- plane headed for some secret fires from autos. planes flew ted, kept zooming back and guarded by tanks. air force was definitely still rendezvous, presumably with my officers tell me." deck guns at the tanks. I noted that the Exactly 24 hours after tfca exactly halfway between the forth, rockets ready, between I never saw so many tanks -— sitting on the fence policywise. Khanh. Before leaving he shook A civilian came up to me and all American-built, by the way, coup began I have just learned asked, "Are you press?" THE TANKS turned their tur- ships and the tanks and could the tanks and ships. I caught a ride back to the hands with everybody in sigbt, either. About dark I went with a and new. airport and wish to say that including me. Although I did not that it was a failure. I said, "Yes." rets away from the house and have clobbered , returned the aim, so to speak. I walked down the street to group of reporters to the air- Ii all this equipment and en- the most dangerous thing about wish to be committed to one Thank heaven the Buddbista HE SAID "They're going to I turned to suggest to my ci- the U.S. Embassy to ask whose port. It had been seized by in- ergy and manpower were ever Vietnamese revolutions is the side or the other I was only stayed neutral along with th» kill that blanketv-hlank-nhscpn- vilian friends that because our side Maxwell Tavlor. our am- surgents and was sealed in case directed against the Viet Cone traffic situation. It is anarchy trying to take his picture with air force. Legislators May Delay Malcolm X Is Slain, DST Action BULLETIN ST. PAUL (AP) — The dayllgfat laving extension bill was sent lack to the Senate floor by the Rules Young Negro Held Committee today. NEW YORK (AP) - A 22- effort to arrange a Muslim fu- The Roles Committee re- year-old Negro today faced a neral for him. jected an attempt by op- homicide charge in the assas- The unidentified spokesman ponents of the bill to send sination of Malcolm X, a "black for the Muslim delegation told it to another committee for nationalist leader. newsmen: 'We just came here further bearing. Malcolm X, 39, died in a vol- to see that he gets an orthodox ley of shotgun and pistol fire as Muslim funeral." He said Mus- ST PAUL (APV-A bill to he started to address a rally of lim rites require that "the sun lengthen Minnesota's daylight his Muslim splinter group Sun- should not rise and set twice on saving time period from three tie body of a dead Muslim." "¦ ¦¦ ¦¦ »¦ day in an upper Manhattan ball- er- ¦ ^8»*** » — ¦ -- — - — — to five months languished in the room. Malcolm was shot fatally on TEARS OF JOY . Mrs. Aurelia Moleta of Hawaii State Senate Rules Committee A homicide charge was lodged the stage at a rally in the Wash- wipes her eyes after first glimpse of her wounded soldier today with doubtful receptions early today against a maa iden- ington Heights section, north of son at Lettennan Hospital in the San Francisco Presidio. awaiting it if it goes to the floor tified by the FBI as Talraadge Harlem. His wife, Betty, 35; Sgt. Raymon Ancho, hit in the left side by grenade blasts of either house of the legis- Hayer, 22,- alias Thomas Hayer, awaiting the birth of their fifth child, in South Viet Nam fighting, was in a hospital plane that lature. a Negro whose last known ad- was in the ball. paused in Honolulu last Tuesday. His mother hurried to the The bill, which would lengthen dress was Paterson, N.J.