Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quietly rebuilt confidence in the CIA and its sensitive role. Under his direction, the agency's performance in alerting Washington to the Russian missile buildup in Cuba in the fall of 1962 was flawless. Before the 1963 coup against South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, the CIA correctly predicted the coup, also warned against the internal strife that would follow. Last Sept. 17 McCone flatly predicted that the Red Chinese would explode their first nuclear bomb within 30 to 60 days. They...
...even if you do a little wrong. Never let an opportunity go by. Life is so short, and death inevitable. And because this is meant especially sexually, and because desire is unwilling to check itself with the thought of doing wrong, Anna's intuitive philosophy of carpe diem, her unabashed "femininity," can drive any male to distraction...
...cannot use napalm bombs and supersonic bombers until you regard the guerillas and the peasants among whom they live as synonymous. American pilots do not make any distinction now, and with reason. If the villagers were not against Diem and his U.S. advisors from the start, they unquestionably oppose his successors and the Americans now. The rebels are receiving some aid from the North, but their spirit and most of their weaponry come from the struggle in the South...
Missed Mother. The aim of the largely Catholic, largely right-wing rebels was to halt what they considered a drift toward neutralism in South Viet Nam, and they even extolled deposed, murdered President Ngo Dinh Diem. Whatever the rebels' motives, had they succeeded, the Buddhists would have instantly taken to the streets. As it turned out, the rebels did not succeed-but who did was far from clear...
...South Vietnamese themselves are gradually achieving political sophistication. The period beginning with the overthrow of Diem has provided the only opportunity for national self-government these people have ever had. The U.S. policy of advice, rather than direct control, leaves considerable discretion for the South Vietnamese politicians and militarymen...