Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory that some star-minded dissident might be moved to try a coup on an astrologically auspicious day. In South Viet Nam everybody was indeed on the move, but where they were moving was no clearer than the zodiac. The U.S. was increasingly unhappy with President Ngo Dinh Diem (Capricorn), and after what the U.S. officially called his "brutal" crackdown on the Buddhists, Washington obviously could not string along with him as if nothing had happened...
...made noises designed to encourage opposition to Diem. But South Viet Nam being what it is, potential rebels did not want to move without virtually a written contract for U.S. support. Meanwhile the U.S. tried to place the odium of the crackdown on Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu (Libra),* and new Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge (Cancer) managed to suggest, without saying anything publicly, that he did not like what was going...
...aged monk with a black eye and bruises all over his face. The government explained that he had fallen down. In other respects, censorship was stringent. In outgoing cables from newsmen, the word Catholic was blue-penciled; after passing the censors, one story referred to "Roman President Ngo Dinh Diem...
...taken a considerable risk in letting so much authority slip from its hands under the martial law proclamation. Taking over the functioning of all government ministries, the army for the first time has a viable power structure of its own. It may well stay loyal as long as Diem remains in the presidential palace, but Nhu is vastly unpopular with most of the military commanders except Tung. The army immediately tried to dissociate itself from the Buddhist crackdown. All official bulletins from the army-controlled government information center pointedly mentioned that Nhu's special forces, and not the army...
...field, action against the Viet Cong has come to a virtual standstill. "This wrecks the Army's efforts against the Reds," said a senior U.S. intelligence officer. "They're too busy enforcing curfews to fight. How the Reds must be loving this." More than ever, Diem's government-or any other in South Viet Nam-depends on U.S. backing. Yet even if Washington should officially decide that Diem has become a liability in the fight against the Viet Cong, the U.S. will not support a change in government while the powers in Saigon are still settling accounts...