Word: diem
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Although Buddhist immolations in 1963 roused American opinion against Ngo Dinh Diem and in 1966 forced Thieu to promise elections, until recently the Buddhists had limited their anti-Thieu protests to pathetic little marches in downtown Saigon, in which they were outnumbered 10 to 1 by police. They have now formed an organization called the Forces for National Reconciliation. The Buddhists carefully refrained from labeling the "force" a political party in order to avoid legal harassment, but they clearly intend to exert renewed political influence. Says Senator Vu Van Mau, leader of a Buddhist group in the Thieu-dominated Senate...
...cover-up begins. On June 20, Dean cleans out Hunt's safe, discovering files on the Pentagon papers case and a forged diplomatic cable that implicates the Kennedy Administration in the assassination in 1963 of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Dean later testifies that Nixon's chief domestic adviser John Ehrlichman subsequently tells him to "deep six" a briefcase full of surveillance equipment and other evidence...
Still, the number of TV and stage performers remains a fraction of the conjuring work force. Most well-paid magicians work at trade shows, parties and conventions where the fees can reach $2,500 per diem. Dick Gustafson, a former chemist, derives a nearly six-figure income from trade shows. "It's no trick," he insists. "For example, I link steel rings together at a show to demonstrate how a chemist will link molecules together to make fibers for, say, Du Pont. Sometimes I float my wife in the air to emphasize the lightness of a fabric." Conjurer Milbourne...
...going to jail. You get pretty desperate." In a sense, Colson's CIA fantasies are not that far removed from some of his previous schemes: fire-bombing the Brookings Institution, for instance, or forging cables linking President Kennedy to the assassination of South Viet Nam's President Diem. The key question is not why Colson is the way he is, but why he was ever given easy access to the highest office in the land...
...pose as homosexuals supporting McGovern at the Democratic National Convention, and engineered mail campaigns in favor of Nixon's policies. He allegedly ordered his close friend E. Howard Hunt to fabricate a State Department telegram implicating President Kennedy in the assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. At one point, according to Senate Watergate testimony, he urged that Washington's Brookings Institution be fire-bombed as a diversionary tactic in a raid to seize some politically damaging documents. "Chuck could never play anything straight," says one of his former underlings. "Everything had to be contrived, a setup...