Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brass named a 15-man "Council of Sages," including business and professional leaders. But it is the military that is running the country. Lieut. General Tran Van Don, 46, the polished, French-schooled staff officer who helped mastermind the coup, was appointed Defense Minister. Major General Ton That Dinh, 36, the aggressive, vain commander of the Saigon district, was named Minister of Public Security, which gives him control of Ngo Dinh Nhu's secret police...
...sages" is the rebel officers' 23-member "Military Revolutionary Committee," which last week decreed that "the legislative and executive powers are centralized" in itself, and named General "Big" Minh Chief of State. Within the committee is a twelve-man inner council, with Big Minh as chairman, Don and Dinh as vice chairmen-obviously the ruling triumvirate...
...regime's most embarrassing problem was two corpses-those of Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. The official talk of suicide was obviously phony (see following story). At the beginning, the generals apparently tried to spare the brothers' lives, but after Diem escaped from the palace, the junta evidently fell back on the philosophy of 19th century British Poet Arthur Hugh Clough...
Four Tigers. The most serious danger to the new government is potential rivalry among the generals. The first hints of this were already appearing as little Major General Ton That Dinh injected himself into the limelight with amazing speed. In the first week of victory, Security Minister Dinh conducted several press conferences of his own, and during one interview, while protesting that "we must stay as one," Dinh insinuated that Big Minh was really only his "front...
...ordered a new corps commander into the Mekong Delta, also replaced three division chiefs. Said one pleased American adviser: "They are putting some young tigers out there." Red North Viet Nam's radio charged that "U.S. imperialists schemed through the recent coup to replace the inefficient Ngo Dinh Diem clique by other henchmen who can serve more effectively their aggressive war." It was a handsome testimonial from the enemy...