Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diem's eldest brother, Ngo Dinh Thuc, 66, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hue, was in Rome attending the Ecumenical Council. Another brother, Ngo Dinh Luyen, 49, was in London, where he resigned as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Diem's 92-year-old mother remained in Saigon, unmolested...
...smoke lifted quickly from the broad avenues surrounding Saigon's Gia Long palace. In the bright sunlight, the pattern of violence came clear-raw shell holes, the black tongue-traces of flamethrowers, and the fine detail of the coup that overthrew and killed President Ngo Dinh Diem...
...Lunch. The night of Viet Nam's national elections late in September (at which government-picked candidates predictably won in a landslide), Don kept a rendezvous in the Hotel Caravelle bar with his old military-school classmate and drinking buddy, Major General Ton That Dinh, 36. A cocky, ambitious palace insider who affected a gold bracelet and a cotton camouflage uniform, Dinh was commander of the III Corps, which controlled Saigon. He also affected-longer than any other coup leader-a loyalty to President Diem that he did not feel. Over Scotch at the Caravelle, and later...
There is a good deal of morning-after disagreement as to who deserves the credit for signing up whom. Don and Dinh suggest that they brought Big Minh into the picture; followers of Minh suggest that he started it all, and recruited Dinh with Don's help. At any rate, in short order the three men were the key figures. To what extent Americans knew about the impending coup is far from clear. Don and Dinh now claim that they did their best to keep the U.S. military, diplomatic and intelligence community in the dark-they regarded the Americans...
...Friday, largely because the top generals met each Friday morning with Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Nhu to review progress in the strategic-hamlet program. Then the generals customarily broke for lunch together at the Joint General Staff headquarters, near Saigon airport, which the plotters by then had well under control...