Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...match to his brown robes. Flames burst over him. Grimacing but uttering no sound, the monk shriveled into a charred skeleton. After three minutes, his arms stiffened before him, and he pitched over. It was the sixth suicide by fire in the Buddhist struggle against President Ngo Dinh Diem...
Time Bomb. Sometimes, however, the correspondents' sense of mission gets them into a different sort of trouble. It raises the question: Have they given their readers an unduly pessimistic view of the progress of the war and the quality of the Diem government...
Worried by their correspondents' insistent anti-Diem, anti-Nhu, pro-Buddhist, we're-losing-the-war attitude, editors began sending other hands to Saigon for a fresh look. One of the first such visitors was the New York Herald Tribune's Maggie Higgins, who complained: "Reporters here would like to see us lose the war to prove they're right." She went out into the field in an effort to get "the seldom-told other side of the story," a story, she insisted, "that contrasts violently with the tragic headlines and anti-Diem ferment...
...dark, indignant picture without departing from the facts, if you ignore the majority of Americans who admire the Vietnamese as fighters and seek out the one U.S. officer in ten who inevitably thinks that all foreigners fight badly. The same method used to report the doings of the Diem government has naturally been even more effective, since a great many of these doings have been remarkably misguided...
...sister of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, had been named previously as the chief speaker at the Forum. She will give a half-hour speech, to be followed by questions or short statements from each of the panel members. It is expected that they will questions her closely about alleged repressive measures against Buddhists and denial of basic freedoms in Viet Nam. Members of the audience will also be able to question the Vietnamese first lady...