Word: dais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came disaster at Dienbienphu. Suddenly the defeated French needed peace?and desperately reached for an "independent" who could rally the demoralized Vietnamese and perhaps salvage something out of the shambles. Diem already had moved down to Paris from Bruges, took a hotel room and began dickering with Bao Dai, the young puppet Emperor who was lolling on the Riviera. Finally Premier Joseph Laniel's government authorized Bao Dai to meet Diem's basic demand: independence for Viet...
...depend on a loyal army, since his French-trained military chief. General Nguyen Van Hinh, was personally hostile and forever plotting to take over the reins of government himself. A private gang, the notorious Binh Xuyen, actually operated the national police, having bought the "concession" from Puppet Emperor Bao Dai for $1,000,000. On top of all this, two powerful quasi-religious sects, the Cao Dai and the Hoa Hao, controlled large parts of the countryside, opposing Diem's regime and enforcing their will with well-armed private armies of their...
Gangbuster. In this crisis, Diem got little help from the French, who were alarmed at his independence, secretly backed the Binh Xuyen, and yearned for the day when they could restore to power the pliable Bao Dai. But the U.S. backed Diem to the hilt. U.S. Special Emissary General J. Lawton Collins supplied ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet to help evacuate the hungry refugees, made it clear to troublesome General Hinh that the U.S. would grant no aid to any army that opposed the Premier. Diem whittled at Hinh's power by wooing important subordinate commanders, and when...
...nearly cost Palmer the title. On the 510-yd. 16th hole in the second round, the blustery wind nudged the ball as he was about to swing, cost him a penalty stroke for hitting a moving ball. That left him a stroke behind diminutive, 5-ft. 5-in. Welshman Dai Rees and South African Harold Henning, with...
...another narrative device, the blind Captain Cat (Nick Carrera) has exactly that power; Alexander Macmillan works a little simple magic with the Reverend Eli Jenkins sunrise and sunset poems; and Newell Flather as Nogood Boyo, Dai Bread, Utah Watkins, and Sinbad is consistently, wonderfully funny...