Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then early last week, McNamara told the House Armed Services Committee that the post-Diem junta was not doing too well, either. The Viet Cong "have made considerable progress since the coup," he said, and the U.S. has "no alternative other than to take all necessary measures within our capability to prevent a Communist victory." Later McNamara "clarified" his statement by explaining that what he had really tried to say was that "there has been a noticeable improvement" in the war. "I'm encouraged," he added, "by the progress of the last two weeks." Next day the coup took...
Thus, only three months after the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Big Minh's regime was itself overturned in a bloodless coup that was so well planned and unexpected that most Saigon citizens first heard of it from a government broadcast 16 hours later. Arrested with Minh were Commander in Chief General Tran Van Don; General Le Van Kim, chief of the joint general staff; Interior Minister General Ton That Dinh; and National Police Chief General Mai Huu Xuan...
...Viet Nam, there was still hope for victory in the grinding war against the Viet Cong Communists. But to many an American observer, the hope may be forlorn unless there are some victories soon over the Red guerrillas. In the third month after the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem, the Viet Cong still reign supreme in 13 of the country's 43 provinces. The Communists control half of Long An Province on Saigon's southern flank (see map). From the fifth-floor terrace bar of the city's Majestic Hotel, idlers can view both bikini-clad...
...weeks the military junta that replaced Diem has been promising a counteroffensive, and a Pentagon official predicts that the current month will see "very significant" action. But for all the generals' vows of increased aggressiveness, the story in the field is still, all too often, one of missed opportunities...
...months since the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem, the news out of South Viet Nam has been mostly bad. The Communist Viet Cong have scored alarming gains in vital Long An province south of Saigon, which feeds the capital. For all the fanfare with which they were welcomed by Diem's critics, the generals who succeeded the slain President have demonstrated an unsettling lack of political leadership; recently, the civilian chiefs of nine northern provinces relayed a plea to junta chairman Major General Duong Van ("Big") Minh: "Please send us orders...