Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon last week showed two Vietnamese soldiers ushering through a courtroom door a little man in white who seemed so weak that he had to be held on his feet. He was Ngo Dinh Can, 50, brother of South Viet Nam's two murdered ex-leaders, Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, and once the tough overlord of central Viet Nam. While Can ruled, the Viet Cong moved warily in the region, but he made lots of other enemies as well. Fleeing for his life after the anti-Diem coup, Can sought asylum in the U.S. consulate...
...diplomats turned Can over to Big Minh's junta, on the understanding that he would be granted something more than the summary judgment meted out to Diem and Nhu, whose bullet-riddled corpses reportedly lie buried in the courtyard of Saigon's Joint
...Minh, he attended the U.S. Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and is considered staunchly pro-American. The irony of Khanh's accession is that it could have happened three months ago. Khanh and a few other disgruntled Vietnamese officers were actually planning to topple the Diem regime when Big Minh and his fellow conspirators beat them to the draw...
...subsequent reshuffle of commands, Minh irked his seasoned fellow general by assigning Khanh to the 1st Corps in the North, one area that the Diem regime had pretty well cleared of Viet Cong guerrillas. However, Khanh firmly denied that it was personal resentment or ambition that prompted him to overthrow Minh. His sole aim, he insisted, was to forestall a takeover by "neutralist" agents who, said he, had been "blatantly" slipped into South Viet Nam for the purpose by France's Charles de Gaulle. Khanh charged, moreover, that the four generals arrested with Minh included a clique within...
Time, in its puerile eagerness to portray the Harvard undergraduate as giddy and faddish, has stumbled blindly past the deepest source of Bogart's popularity. Ah, Time, beneath that rugged grain lie vast wellsprings of tender vulnerability. Behind the carpe diem don't-give-a-damn throb the profundities of ultimate concern. To Time, Bogey, in sex as in all, is hard-boiled egoistic opportunist. We know what he is really after. A little bare Thou...