Word: diem
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...Diem government ruled Hoaimy lightly. There was a small garrison of civil-defense troops and a grammar school. But Hoaimy had no clinic, no high school, no agricultural assistance, no real return for taxes, and no official attention that was more than passing. Then last November, after Diem's overthrow, the Communist Viet Cong arrived. They drove off the garrison, and when the new government made a feeble effort to recapture Hoaimy, the Viet Cong ambushed and whipped an army battalion...
...aiming for. Some Americans believe that the new Red attacks are meant to push the Vietnamese army into carrying out a coup to set up a neutralist regime. Given the petty politicking still being waged by Vietnamese politicians six months after the U.S.-encouraged overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem,* such a prospect is not impossible. Premier Nguyen Khanh so far has had the barracks behind him, but at week's end yet another wave of coup rumors rippled through Saigon, then subsided. No one realizes more clearly the possible repercussions of another coup than U.S. Secretary of Defense...
...expected to galvanize support behind the country's new ruler, General Nguyen Khanh, who seems sincere and energetic in his efforts to press the anti-Communist war. But Saigon's politicians are once again engaged in their petty intrigues, which prompted the late President Ngo Dinh Diem to keep them under firm control. Sipping coffee at sidewalk cafes, Saigon's intelligentsia carp about Khanh's attempts to rally the capital into the backlands war it has so long regarded as something apart. The Premier has ordered all male university graduates to report to military school, plans...
Official Optimism. Of late, Khanh has had to remind his civilian collaborators that they are essentially window dressing in a military regime. Last week Interior Minister Ha Thuc Ky, whom Diem found it expedient to jail for four years, indignantly resigned because he could not load the provincial payrolls with stalwarts of his Dai Viet Party (membership: 2,000). Khanh has filled such posts with battle-hardened army officers. The malcontents spread rumors of possible coups and sneer that Khanh is "becoming a dictator like Diem...
...optimism is based on the fact that despite sporadic rumblings in the barracks, Khanh up to now has enjoyed the support of the bulk of the military. Perhaps the best thing that Khanh could do to preserve his position would be to become, if not precisely a strongman like Diem, at least like him in determination...