Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam and hinted that he might raise the level of fighting (see THE WORLD), Humphrey has been moving slowly toward the position of critics like Eugene McCarthy. Goaded by McCarthy last week, he took mild issue with the Saigon government's five-year jail sentence for Truong Dinh Dzu, the peace candidate and runner-up in last year's presidential election, who advocated negotiation with the Viet Cong. Humphrey hinted, delicately, that he might even agree with Dzu. "What I'm saying," he declared, "is that at a negotiating table, if you're really looking...
...government representing a broad segment of South Vietnamese society but excluding members of the present government of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Thieu, in turn, so far refuses to countenance any coalition with the Front or the Viet Cong, and has jailed prominent South Vietnamese, including former Presidential Candidate Truong Dinh Dzu two weeks ago, for even daring to suggest the notion...
...demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops and bases and the creation of an independent, neutral South Viet Nam. Still, nine of its ten leaders have never been identified as Communists or as having had close association with the Viet Cong-although all have neutralist or leftist backgrounds. Chairman Trinh Dinh Thao, 66, a Saigon lawyer and onetime partner of Nguyen Huu Tho, president of the N.L.F., was held at least once by Saigon authorities for championing peace movements unacceptable to the government; Thich Don Hau, the Alliance's vice chairman, was a leader of militant Buddhists...
Changed Tactics. The strategist behind the siege is Colonel Tran Dinh Xu, the Communist commander for the capital district. At night, his rocketeers slip to within range of the city, often using, for the sake of speed, crude earthworks and bamboo racks rather than unwieldy launcher tubes to aim their whispering death on Saigon. Easily broken down into sections-a 2-lb. fuse, a 41-lb. warhead and a 59-lb. motor section-the rockets can be carried by porters, are quickly assembled and fired by a crew of only three men. The missiles are not notably precise...
...Navy lieutenant named John F. Kennedy. Two decades later, President Kennedy chose Krulak as a special adviser on guerrilla war in Viet Nam. The leatherneck's rosy report, based on a 1963 inspection trip, contrasted with a State Department official's gloomy prognosis shortly before President Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination. "Were you two gentlemen," asked Kennedy, "in the same country...