Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy that American targets in North Viet Nam are steel and concrete rather than human lives," he wrote, "seems to have little connection with the reality of attacks carried out by U.S. planes." He reported 89 killed in one town, 40 in another, 24 in a third. In Nam Dinh, third largest city in the North (population...
Second Try. At week's end the Viet Cong decided to try again. This time they kidnaped 108 residents of Dinh Cu hamlet, just a mile or two from Long Vinh. The peasants there are no more likely than the first group to cozy up to the Viet Cong, but they will be lucky if they escape with only a dose of indoctrination. While Americans celebrated Thanksgiving, a group of Viet Cong ambushed a truck convoy of civilians on a road 135 miles northeast of Saigon. Before they were through, they had killed nine people...
...priest has 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...
...Distort?" "Your correspondent and your editors undoubtedly know of the two elections in South Vietnam (1955 and 1961) in which Ngo Dinh Diem was elected and then re-elected President of the Republic of Vietnam. You must also be aware that the National Assembly was for eight years the elected legislative body of South Vietnam, functioning under the Vietnamese Constitution, until the overthrow of the Diem Government on Nov. 1, 1963. Elections were held for the National Assembly as late as October 1963-a month before a group of Vietnamese generals, encouraged by the United States Government, illegally seized power...
Trouble between Saigon and the highlands began in 1954, when President Ngo Dinh Diem's regime attempted to "assimilate" the million-odd Montagnards. Tribal schools and courts were abolished, and 200,000 Vietnamese moved into the hills-often violating tribal tenure rights to grab rich land along the highlands' racing rivers. In Darlac, a Vietnamese province chief decreed that Montagnards must wear shirts and slacks; in Pleiku, Montagnards were forbidden to build their houses on stilts. By 1958, the tribesmen were completely dispossessed: Diem denied them title to their lands...