Word: diem
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...hamlets as Gia Hoi or Hoai Chau. So narrow and parochial is their vision that most do not know the name of their province chief or the mayor of the adjoining city. At their hesitant best, the peasants can identify only Ho Chi Minn and the late Ngo Dinh Diem. Few know why the French came and where or why they have gone. Some do not even know that Viet Nam has been divided into a North and South; others have heard of Saigon but have no idea where...
Poker & Capital. Co was one of the 13 generals whose junta replaced the Diem regime in November 1963, and one of the ten who put Ky in power in June 1965. A tough field commander who led one of France's prized groupements mobiles during the Indo-China war, Co apparently found the temptations of power too appealing. With a base pay of $177 a month, he acquired three villas in Saigon and property worth an estimated $600,000 near Tan Son Nhut Airport. Go's wealth, it was said, came from payoffs by officers who wanted safe...
...described as "an unprecedented brain drain from an underdeveloped country" is an estimated 1,200 lawyers, 600 doctors (more than in all Viet Nam) and 300 engineers. High-ranking exiles include Three-Star General Nguyen Van Hinh, the army chief of staff who plotted against Premier Ngo Dinh Diem in 1954. Today he is a deputy commander of the French air force. Prince Buu Hoi heads Paris' National Cancer Institute...
...attempt to define representative government is as old as Plato, but, by any reasonable definition, the Vietnamese people certainly had more of it under President Diem-than they have had since his overthrow. They had a Constitution (modeled on that of the United States), they had an elected legislative body, they had a Cabinet of responsible ministers, they had a Supreme Court, they had an elected President. Even though the minds of the people had been attuned for generations to authoritarian rule, they were beginning to learn the rudiments of self-government through institutions developed during Diem's eight...
...does The Times continue to distort the record on Vietnam? The reason, I think, is clear. The overthrow of Diem-which left a vacuum so great that 300,000 Americans and $2 billion a month seem insufficient to fill it-was due in no small part to the influence of The Times. A weak Department of State would not stand up to the pressure. The Times attacked the Diem Government directly in its editorials and inferentially in its news reports. President Kennedy became sensitive to the charge of supporting a 'Catholic' government in a 'Buddhist' country...