Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington was cautiously optimistic -or was it optimistically cautious?-about the military coup in South Viet Nam. Everyone agreed that it was, indeed, a pity that President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu had to get murdered in the process. After the U.S. conferred diplomatic recognition on the generals' government, Dean Rusk said: "We think the new regime will be able to resolve the internal problems and unify the people...
...funds-except for money out of her reach in Viet Nam. She and Le Thuy moved into a four-room suite in the Bel Air mansion of Financier Allen Chase, who has vast investments in the Orient with TV Performer Art Linkletter, and was an occasional visitor at President Diem's palace...
...Corpses. Behind the first euphoric reaction to the coup there was some fairly grim political business for the crowd of generals who had accomplished it. The officers under Lieut. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh first moved to consolidate their victory. Reportedly they executed the captured commander of Diem's elite Special Forces, Colonel Le Quang Tung, his brother, the Special Forces Chief of Staff, Major Le Quang Trieu, and a former leader of Diem's Republican youth. They also placed under "protective custody" several former Diem officials...
...rebels had no difficulty laying their hands on Ngo Dinh Can, 50, Diem's brother and tough overlord of Central Viet Nam. Wearing tattered clothes but carrying a valise containing cash, Can sought refuge in the U.S. consulate, only to be turned out after the State Department received assurances that the generals would allow him "due process...
...regime's most embarrassing problem was two corpses-those of Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. The official talk of suicide was obviously phony (see following story). At the beginning, the generals apparently tried to spare the brothers' lives, but after Diem escaped from the palace, the junta evidently fell back on the philosophy of 19th century British Poet Arthur Hugh Clough...