Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they could concentrate on prosecuting the war. But without a firm hand, all the old religious and fractional rivalries erupted anew. Quat asked the generals to take over, and reluctantly they did-in the first peaceful transition of power that Saigon had seen since the death of Diem...
...fact, is not even nominally the top man. That hat belongs to Directory Chairman and Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, 42, a brainy, sophisticated survivor of nearly every government since Diem, who provides a quiet balance to Ky's occasional impulsiveness. Of the line commanders, both the III Corps and the Capital Military Region are in the hands of generals born in North Viet Nam-and close friends of Ky. The Mekong Delta, or the IV Corps, is the domain of Major General Dan Van Quang, 36, a rough soldier whose girth and ready laughter have earned...
...other pundits got around to it, Maggie warned that the Russians were entering Cuba in ominously large numbers. She was one of the first to report that the Viet Nam Buddhists, who had been characterized by other reporters as innocent victims of oppression, were actually political opponents of the Diem regime...
...third captured the town of Dak Sut; U.S. Special Forces defenders were bloodied at Bu Dop and Due Co. Talk of neutralism began to stir the cities of the South as the fledgling military regime of Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky-the tenth Saigon government since Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination in November 1963-shakily took power in June...
...fate of the Diem government shows how little it merited even that limited aid, Gruening said...