Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saigon last week, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem arrested a former Minister of the Interior on charges of extorting $120,000 from local Chinese businessmen. Diem scheduled a spectacular public trial, in which his prosecutors intend to show how the ex-Minister's policemen arrested wealthy Chinese and threatened to deport them "for helping the Viet Minh" unless the Chinese paid blackmail. Diem wants to use the trial to herald a big new campaign against corruption in demoralized South Viet Nam. There are faint signs that his austere new nationalism is beginning to catch an apathetic public's fancy...
...Binh Xuyen's concession expires Jan. 15. South Viet Nam's austerely Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, a Roman Catholic who is appalled by Saigon's immorality, is determined to clean up the city. But in doing so, Diem would have to sacrifice a steady source of government income and risk a show of strength with the armed hoodlums of the Binh Xuyen. It would be a hard decision, but word leaked out at week's end that Diem was steeling himself to take it: not to renew the Binh Xuyen's golden concession...
...salt-and-pepper suit and bright green tie, General Nguyen Van Hinh, head of the Vietnamese army, flew to Paris to interview his chief of state, Bao Dai. The 39-year-old general was loudly confident that he could undermine his arch rival, the Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, whose efforts he had been successfully frustrating back home...
...Lightning Joe" Collins got off to a remarkably confident start. "I have come out to Indo-China," he told a press conference, "to take measures to save this region from Communism. I have come to bring every possible aid to the government of Ngo Dinh Diem and to his government only . . ." Collins was politely telling French and Vietnamese intriguers that Diem, for all his weaknesses, was America's man, and that they had better get behind Diem if they wanted U.S. sympathy or assistance. The Vietnamese national army, he indicated, must give up any thought of a coup...
Privilege & Presence. South Viet Nam, by contrast, which remains within the French Union, is demoralized and divided. Bao Dai, the porcine Chief of State, lives in France with his mistresses, his Ferrari and his Jaguar XK 120. Bao Dai's Premier in Saigon is Ngo Dinh Diem, 53, a high-minded patriot but an ineffective leader, who is more or less locked up inside his palace by Vietnamese generals who want to grab power for themselves. In many of the villages that the Viet Minh infiltrators do not control,* local sects and gangsters rule with private armies...