Word: diem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that after the French left, the U.S. took over Vietnam by installing the Diem regime and starting an "obnoxious and bloody pacification program," that drove the peasantry into villages resembling concentration camps...
South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem. The assassination in November 1963, although it was part of a coup that was started with some U.S. support, was "a spontaneous act... and was carried out without U.S. involvement or support...
Heroic in War. In some cases, the Americans made the mistake of thinking they could indefinitely control dissident groups that they were supporting. The U.S. had encouraged the plotters against Diem, but then changed course. On Oct. 30, 1963, just before the coup, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge cabled Washington that he was unable to halt it. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense William Bundy cabled back from Washington: WE CANNOT ACCEPT CONCLUSION THAT WE HAVE NO POWER TO DELAY OR DISCOURAGE A COUP. Three days later, Diem was murdered...
Though the clock now rules the industrial universe, it is a mechanical chronos that has been foreign to most human experience. All organisms have "circadian" rhythms (from circa, about, and diem, day), whose periodicity is a response to biological needs. The psychological sense of time is one of durée, of bleak moments and moments of bliss, of the agony of time prolonged and time eclipsed; memory is not the function of a "length" of time, but of its intensity. Most important, in the area of work-the experience that shapes character-time was long considered a function...
...DIEM. The coup against Diem was planned with the knowledge of Dean Rusk and Averell Harriman at the State Department, Robert S. McNamara and Roswell Gilpatric at the Defense Department and the late Edward R. Murrow at the U.S. Information Agency. The U.S. hoped Diem's overthrow would halt the domestic turmoil that had weakened South Viet Nam. But the CIA's director, John A. McCone, vigorously opposed the overthrow of Diem on the reasoning that none of the generals enlisted in the coup would be half as effective a leader as the man they wanted to bring...