Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest expansion of Washington's commitment in Viet Nam since the U.S.'s first big buildup there in 1962 under President Kennedy. And it represents a reversal of policy for the U.S. Government. Only ten months ago, shortly before the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was talking of bringing most American training troops home from Viet Nam by the end of 1965. Now there is no more talk of being out by 1965-or any other year in the foreseeable future. Of McNamara's statement, one Administration colleague confessed last week...
...openly confirming that for three years South Vietnamese sabotage teams have been slipping into the north on the ground and by air. "I myself dropped special-forces units into North Viet Nam," boasted Ky. Actually, his disclosures added little to what was already known. The raids were begun under Diem, with U.S. approval, and apparently are continuing sporadically but with scant success...
...defoliate is like using an atomic bomb to light a cigarette. We use weed killer." Lodge also clashed head on with the report of a committee of 13 Republican Congressmen, led by Michigan's Gerald Ford, which scored the Kennedy Administration for actively aiding the overthrow of the Diem regime. Lodge angrily denied that the Administration had been involved in any way. Ford advised that American officers now be given direct command of Vietnamese troops, instead of remaining merely as advisers. To that, Lodge retorted: "If we do that, we become a colonial power. I think it is pretty...
...week 25,000 Catholics staged a unity march in Saigon, which was orderly except for a militant minority that carried banners urging U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to GO HOME. Many Catholics believe thai odge was instrumental in the U.S. decision to curtail aid to Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem prior to Diem's overthrow and murder. However, others in the crowd tore down the anti-Lodge signs...
Later, 2,000 Buddhists marched to a Saigon pagoda to mark the anniversary of the immolation of Thich Quang Due, the aged monk who was the first to burn himself alive in last summer's wave of anti-Diem Buddhist sacrifices. Hours before the service, a towering statue of Buddha on the banks of the Saigon River suddenly blazed up in flames. Within minutes, an awed crowd had gathered, murmuring that surely a miracle had occurred to commemorate Thich Quang Due's sacrifice. As it turned out, however, the statue was made of highly inflammable plastic...