Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down from 185 to 145, he signed four statements, "when I believed I was at the end of my physical endurance." The documents, which Matagulay later had to read aloud so that the Viet Cong could record them on tape, bitterly attacked South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem and the U.S.'s support for his government...
...view of the fact that it is highly unlikely that your cherished accolade is to be bestowed upon President Kennedy for a second year in succession (although he did nothing to earn it last year), I would like to suggest for Man of the Year, President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam. He is one of the few world leaders to be sincere and determined in the struggle against creeping and malignant Communism...
...they report consists mostly of grim, isolated jungle skirmishes; as for the big picture, they usually color it gloomy. But in recent months the gloom has been a few shades lighter, and at times hope has broken through. Last week, before the National Assembly in Saigon, President Ngo Dinh Diem announced: "We are recovering the initiative, even during the rainy season, which heretofore the enemy has considered favorable to him. Victory is not only sure but imminent." Among the hopeful signs cited by Diem...
This time field commanders were in complete control of the operation, without the usual interference from President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace in Saigon. Provincial chiefs, who sometimes acted independently of the army, were under orders to cooperate with the operation's commanders. And. instead of operating from a set battle plan mapped out in Saigon, the mission was kept flexible and aggressive with day-to-day, on-the-spot planning on the basis of field intelligence. Flexibility paid off. In the first eleven days of the operation, government forces killed 200 Viet Cong troops, captured 45 more...
Training Program. But the Viet Cong overplayed their hand. They took rice and livestock from the montagnards in order to feed their guerrillas, used terror tactics against the more recalcitrant mountain villages. Tens of thousands of montagnards fled to government-held territory. Prodded by the U.S., President Ngo Dinh Diem's government has begun an attempt to win the montagnards over with a resettlement program. Even more important, U.S. military advisers have started a program to arm and train montagnards, who then are sent back into the hills to defend their villages and to keep the surrounding territory...