Word: diem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beating of drum and gong, 86.4% of the eligible voters in South Viet Nam last week went to the polls to elect the country's first National Assembly. Result: a landslide victory for President Ngo Dinh Diem's National Revolutionary Movement. Despite highhanded campaign regulations that hobbled any organized opposition to Diem, the election was no mere formality. There were many independent candidates in the running. Voters indicated Diem's basic popularity by voting heavily for openly pro-government candidates of whatever party, including Diem's brother and sister-in-law and four of his Cabinet...
...tacit U.S. support of the Arabs. "We have the impression that behind certain forms of rebellion and of propaganda there lurks the desire of certain powers to swallow up the heritage of France." Turning on the Americans present, he reproached the U.S. for backing the government of Ngo Dinh Diem against the French: "Each time you Americans do something wrong, you do it with the best of intentions. If there had been full cooperation on Indo-China, we would not have arrived where we are today...
...Tossing his 15,000-man army now on one side, now on the other in the delicate balance of Vietnamese politics, he succeeded only in incurring the wrath of his military Chief-of-Staff General Nguyen Thanh Phuong, who is now an avowed supporter of Premier-President Ngo Dinh Diem. "The time has come," said General Phuong one day last year, "for a good sweep of brooms down at the Holy See." The general surprised the Cao Daist "Vatican" at siesta time, disarmed the 400-man papal guard and clapped a score of corrupted princes of the church, including...
Rescued from the unhallowed earth, the bodies were removed, placed in coffins and carried back to the family vault at Phu-cam, while 75.000 Vietnamese watched in awed silence. "His spirit infuses our people during this renaissance of independence," said Ngo Dinh Diem...
Married. Tran Trung Dung, 42, Vietnamese Deputy Minister for National Defense since March 1955; and Nguyen Thi Hoang Anh ("The Nightingale"), 21, doll-like niece of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem; in a Roman Catholic ceremony; in Hue, Viet...