Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu of South Vietnam carries her private campaign for United States support into Cambridge today. The sister-in-law of strongarm President Diem will arrive at Logar airport sometime after 4 p.m. and will speak tonight at the Law school Forum...
...States has no right to terminate aid to her country, the $500 million annual bounty ought to be ended and American forces withdrawn unless she and her relatives are reformed or replaced. Continued U.S. aid under present conditions virtually assures complicity in a major calamity. Predictions that the present Diem government will conquer the Vietcong guerrillas are fantasy; hopes for anything better than defeat are generously optimistic...
Lodge may have been forced to this extreme by the family's failure to show any serious intentions to reform. To imagine that mandarin President Diem will ever take the initiative in reforming himself, the palace clique, the police, and the army, is like thinking that the Cosa Nostra will voluntarily abandon organized crime...
Collective Judgment. The press in Saigon was obviously making news in itself, and in its Sept. 20 issue, TIME assessed their work. By then, neither the correspondents' emotional involvement nor their privately outspoken attitude toward the Diem government was seriously denied. TIME found the Saigon reporters to be working hard under extremely difficult conditions, but also found them such a tightly knit group that their dispatches tended to reinforce their own collective judgment, which was severely critical of practically everything. What they reported about the course of the war was seriously questioned in Washington; what they wrote about...
...they said, and the U.S. embassy has shunned them for years. They play up gripes from junior officers in the field but consider General Paul Harkins, Commander of the U.S. Forces in South Viet Nam, too evasive for his statements to be taken seriously. They seldom bother to see Diem government officials because, they say, the effort only gets them either more lies or runarounds. They have no apologies for their total dislike of the Diem government, but regardless of their personal feelings, they insist, their reporting has been as accurate as the confusing conditions permit...