Word: binh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forestall what the CIA-whose field reports have been consistently accurate in the past-at this stage estimated to be a 40% chance of a coup attempt in the coming months. He handed out promotions to 29 generals and admirals. He also decided to appoint Colonel Nguyen Khac Binh, head of South Viet Nam's CIA-like Central Intelligence Organization, to oversee the national police. Binh will thus have at his command 200,000 armed men, including, besides patrolmen and traffic cops, the much-feared secret police...
...ruling politicians have imbibed only sparingly of the spirit of democracy, while adopting every trick in the freewheeling history of American ward politics and adding some new wrinkles of their own. On election day, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch made a tour of the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Binh, where the government seemed particularly intent on making certain that popular Opposition Deputy Ngo Cong Duc lost (TIME, Sept. 6). Rauch's report...
...most striking thing about the polling in Vinh Binh was the thoroughness with which the ground had been prepared. There was no atmosphere of terror, but rather a palpable feeling of unease and fear that made it easy to persuade people not to see what they were looking at, not to hear what was said -in short, not to interfere. That atmosphere hung heavy at Dinh Binh, a tiny hamlet two miles down a mud footpath from the nearest village big enough to have a helicopter pad. At high noon, clusters of Vietnamese stood idly between the Catholic church...
...Binh is the first feature film to be directed by the superb French cinematographer Raoul Coutard, 47, who has photographed much of the work of Godard and Truffaut. Made entirely in Viet Nam during 1969, the movie is full of scenes of severe beauty: gas-masked soldiers outlined against a metallic sky, actors in elaborate Oriental costume running from a bombed theater, whole rows of huts bursting suddenly into flame...
Some Duc supporters in Vinh Binh could be forgiven if they hope that he loses this time. In certain areas they claim that government officials have threatened to reclassify their villages as Communist if he wins. This would leave the villages open to demolition and the villagers subject to forced relocation. In other instances, polls were located well outside villages in areas of marginal security to discourage voting and poll watching by the candidate's representatives. Nonetheless, as the campaign ended last week, Western diplomats were still fervently hoping for a Duc victory. "By every indication," said...