Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Credits & Debits. U.S. military advisers still complain that poor communications and the highly centralized command setup of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem retard quick response to Viet Cong attacks. But slowly, the tactics taught by the U.S. advisers-most notably the use of helicopters-have begun to show results. The Viet Cong is now suffering nearly twice as many casualties as the South Vietnamese and the amount of captured Viet Cong equipment is rising. Viet Cong defections are on the increase, and Viet Cong terror tactics against the Montagnards (mountain tribesmen), who have been indifferent...
...edification of those disgruntled by and ' South private Viet Nam's dancing, new ban on strait-laced public First Lady Mme. Nqo DInh Nhu delivered a stern lecture. "Foreigners come here not to dance, but to help Vietnamese fight Communism." said President Diem's sister-in-law and official hostess. "Dancing with death is sufficient." Besides, said she, "Asians are not used to promiscuity be tween men and women. If the Americans want to dance, they should go elsewhere." And what of Saigon's 1,200 newly unem- ployed taxi dancers? Said the mandarin...
Phase Two: Move to the Right. This surge of Communist power alarmed the Eisenhower Administration, then engaged in trying to help President Ngo Dinh Diem of neighboring South Viet Nam preserve a pro-Western government against Red aggression. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had tried to seal off Southeast Asia by building the SEATO pact and encouraging anti-Communist allies. The U.S. Ambassador to Laos, J. Graham Parsons, distrusted Premier Souvanna Phouma both as a neutralist and a compromiser with the Reds. Withholding U.S. economic aid was enough to cause Souvanna's downfall, and he was replaced...
...long urged President Ngo Dinh Diem to reform his South Vietnamese government in order better to fight the Communist guerrillas. Last week Diem acted in one area that was not considered exactly crucial by U.S. advisers: public morals. Diem, encouraged by his beautiful, puritanical sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, signed an austerity law aimed at protecting "the traditional virtue of Viet Nam" by banning beauty contests, cockfighting, abortions, contraceptives and boxing matches. Under the law, public or private dancing is punishable by fines ranging from $2.75 to $685, and up to three months' imprisonment...
...that because Luong Son lacks a radio transmitter, it takes four hours to summon aid by runners. Said he curtly: "Let's get radios in this area." At the resort town of Dalat, McNamara changed to black tie to dine with South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem...