Word: diem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later got federal jobs. Another issue arose last week. Since taking office Meese has made 47 trips at the expense of nongovernmental groups, but declared only eight similar trips on his financial disclosure form. The Justice Department has asked Congress for $300,000 for the probe, including a per diem payment for Stein based on an annual $69,600 salary. While Meese's case awaits resolution, Attorney General William French Smith will stay on the job. He had wanted to leave but changed his mind after a 15-minute Oval Office plea, thus sparing Reagan something of a political...
...Kennedy would ask for nearly 1,000 new ICBMS for the American nuclear arsenal, which eventually triggered what has become the greatest arms race in history. He acquiesced in the overthrow of the Diem government in South Viet Nam in 1963. And he ordered 16,000 American troops into that country...
...second episode, about how the French were driven out in 1954, is enhanced by extraordinary footage obtained from the Communist government in Hanoi of the battle for Dien Bien Phu. The third hour, about American support for, and eventual abandonment of, Ngo Dinh Diem, includes horrific scenes of a Buddhist monk setting himself ablaze as a protest against Diem's government, followed by a clip of Diem's sister-in-law Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu sneering at the monk for using "imported gasoline." President John Kennedy is shown saying in September 1963, " "It is their war. The [South...
Beyond that, Podhoretz makes no attempt to class any of the pathetically weak strongmen who took our orders in the South was more than a tyrant. He credits Diem with jailing tens of thousands, assisting local officials, and the "wholesale suppression of political opposition." Life under Thieu, he adds, included "rigged elections" and "those underground 'tiger cages' fit only for wild animals. "It seems reasonably clear why the South Vietnamese of the 1950s were not terrified of choosing undemocratic...
...nothing to be upset about. That the war is over. As if, in the first place, Vietman was what this movement was all about, just Vietnam and not about a bigger war. Vietman did't happen by it self, or by accident. The same system that backed Thieu and Diem backed Somoza, backs Pinochet and Duarts; Vietman, is this sense, is still with us. In a bad mood, one can make the arguments that times have worsened. Vietnam, set against a backdrop of liberal progress at home and an awakening concern for others abroad, appeared a great aberration, an enormous...