Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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June 24: Tran Van Huong tells South Vietnamese National Assembly that, before 1960, "patriotic fighters took to the jungle to fight the Ngo Dinh Diem dictatorship." This is an indication that he feels that not all guerrillas are Communists, could pave the way for eventual amnesty...
Other clues pointed to the possibility that the impasse might at last be breaking up. One was the return to South Viet Nam, at the invitation of President Nguyen Van Thieu, of Major General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"). The leader of the 1963 coup that deposed Ngo Dinh Diem, he had spent nearly four years in exile. Hanoi, which apparently sees Big Minh as a possible bridge between the present Saigon regime and the Viet Cong guerrillas, has accordingly taken pains to treat him gently. A sharp reduction in fighting in the South also took place. U.S. battle deaths...
...native South Viet Nam in 1965, the tower at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport refused to grant his plane landing clearance and he had to head back into exile in neighboring Thailand. It was a humiliating rebuff for burly "Big Minh,"* the man who ousted Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and who rose to chief of state before he was shelved and then banished in a subsequent coup. Last year Minh tried another route-by filing as a presidential candidate-only to have his application rejected by a military government that was well aware of his excellent chances...
...political maneuvering during which he has managed to shoulder aside ambitious Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and his supporters, Thieu has consolidated his position to the point where U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker recently described his government as "more stable than at any time since the early days of Diem." Thieu described Minh's return as part of a national reconciliation plan, said he would soon send emissaries to Bangkok to bring him home by Nov. 1, South Viet Nam's National Day and the fifth anniversary of the anti-Diem coup...
...lieutenant named John F. Kennedy. Two decades later, President Kennedy chose Krulak as a special adviser on guerrilla war in Viet Nam. The leatherneck's rosy report, based on a 1963 inspection trip, contrasted with a State Department official's gloomy prognosis shortly before President Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination. "Were you two gentlemen," asked Kennedy, "in the same country...