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were bias with the by to douse his him. with to his the in 5 5 2c SUNDAY NEWS, OCTOBER 6, 1963 Rusk Condemns Diem In Newsmen Assault By MICHAEL O'NEILL Washington, Oct. 5 (NEWS Bureau) of State Dean Rusk strongly denounced the Diem regime today for permitting or encouraging its police to launch another physical assault on American reporters in South Viet Nam. Rusk spoke out after President Kennedy and his top foreign affairs advisers huddled at the White House in another effort to straighten out this country's tangled policy lines in Saigon. No details were disclosed, but informed sources said the President was backing Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge all the way in his move to assume full control of all the different and sometimes feuding U.S.