Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What the U.S. Wants. Washington has some fairly specific demands: it wants President Ngo Dinh Diem to redeploy his forces according to U.S. military advice, wants him to change the strategic-hamlet program, which the U.S. believes is going too fast to be sound, and wants him to be less autocratic, particularly in regard to the Buddhists. To pressure Diem into doing these things, the U.S. has begun withholding certain kinds of aid. For one thing, Washington has suspended part of a $350,000 monthly subsidy to the elite, 2,000-member Special Forces, who raided Buddhist pagodas last August...
Meanwhile Buddhists from eleven Asian nations-some fellow travelers, but others apparently sincere monks-turned up in Peking for a three-day rally, listened to a Viet Cong delegate denounce South Viet Nam as "a hell on earth created by United States imperialism and its lackey, the Ngo Dinh Diem clique." Ignoring Red China's own subjugation of Buddhism, the meeting unanimously adopted a resolution accusing Diem of "atrocities." By serving as a vehicle for Red Chinese propaganda, the Buddhists hardly strengthened their case...
...Richard C. Patterson Jr., as he strode past a clutch of curious newsmen in the lobby of Manhattan's Barclay Hotel one morning last week. "I'm just here to see that the lady has sufficient police protection." The lady-South Viet Nam's Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu-coolly assured Patterson that her protection was just fine. Besides, she added, "God is in my corner...
Even so, there were times last week when her corner must have seemed a lonely place. As curiosity about the sister-in-law of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem began to ebb in the second week of her 21-day tour, sympathetic crowds dwindled, officials cold-shouldered her, and about the only people who turned out to see her were newsmen and students...
...Saigon her husband was doing much the same thing. Ngo Dinh Nhu, Diem's brother, top adviser and secret police chief, spoke to seven Western newsmen at the presidential palace, told them in a 2¼-hour interview that...