Word: diem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reference to your Viet Nam conflict chronology, I am very grateful that you did not fail to state that in July 1955, with U.S. support. Diem barred reunification elections. This fact has apparently been overlooked (or willfully ignored) by many Americans, especially by those who loftily proclaim the God-given right of every people to determine their own destiny by means of the electoral process. Obviously the dictum did not apply in Viet Nam, where "Bad Guy" Ho might have...
...down the tragedy of Viet Nam policy, showing it in slow motion. In fact, at first it all went deceptively slowly, a careless drift into a game of "counterinsurgency and special forces." To support a policy that was no policy, only a momentum, the Kennedy Administration, Halberstam charges, "invented Diem and his country," then became captive to its own myth. Escalation was only the logical extension of an original departure from reality. Perhaps the most sobering Halberstam homily concludes thus: "The best way for civilians to harness generals" is to "stay out of wars...
...torture, kidnap or arrest suspect members of the opposition. If the U.S. and North Vietnam have not yet agreed to a "political" ceasefire in the South then their new agreement will not last. The present Vietnam War started because of the repressive policies of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. North Vietnam entered actively into the war only after the U.S. dispatched troops to protect the tottering Diem regime from southern insurgents...
...Dinh Nhu, the beautiful doll-like sister-in-law of President Ngo Dinh Diem, once ruled Saigon social life like a pirate queen. She censored movies, organized women's militia units and fiercely denounced all opposition. When a Buddhist monk set himself on fire to protest Diem's repression, Mme. Nhu ridiculed the immolation as a "barbecue." Touring abroad when her husband and Diem were slain in 1963, Mme. Nhu took up residence in a commodious, ocher-colored Roman villa purchased with funds the family had accumulated during the years of power. Now 48, she still lives there with...
Thich Tri Quang, a militant Buddhist monk, spearheaded his church's noisy protest movement against a succession of Saigon governments. Intense and ardent, an excellent organizer, Tri Quang inspired the beginning of the Buddhist demonstrations against Diem in 1963, followed through in 1965 and 1966 against Premier Ky and President Thieu. As the latter solidified his power, Tri Quang drifted back to his pagoda in Saigon. Now he is studying Buddhist scriptures, toying with a stamp collection and perhaps thinking out ways to deal with a new government...