Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Ngo Dinh Diem is a tough, experienced anti-Communist fighter on whose regime the U.S. has placed high hopes ever since he took over in the chaotic aftermath of the Indo-Chinese war. The U.S. has argued that some of Diem's highhandedness and autocratic ways are necessary in a country desperately menaced by Communist subversion. Even though without him the situation in South Viet Nam might be a disastrous vacuum, Washington lately has become increasingly disenchanted with Diem...
...South Viet Nam, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu is much more than Bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem's sister-in-law and a Christian first lady in a Buddhist land. She is also a pert, sloe-eyed and strong-willed feminist who, as a member of the National Assembly, pushed through a "chastity law" that reins in freewheeling husbands and gives wives more freedom to plan their own lives. To outspoken and powerful Madame Ngo, the cheating husbands of the journalistic world are the foreign correspondents, who are not subject to the Directorate General of Information "guidance" that all South...
...dining room, which Mrs. Mesta had decorated with French wall coverings of tapestry patterns, was considered perfect as it was. In the foyer are displayed some dazzling mementos of the Johnsons' recent travels, e.g., a painting of sampans, from South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem, a Gandharan head from Pakistan's President Ayub. From Texas came the Johnson collection of paintings and drawings by their favorite Texas artists-Porfirio Salinas, who specializes in scenes of Texas' hill country, and Kelly Fearing (birds). Says Lady Bird, who mounted a few of the Texas works near...
...Three hundred Communist Viet Cong guerrillas escaping the flooded south clashed in a bloody fight with government troops and civil guards. In the Mekong Delta region, a Communist band stormed the military outpost of Minh Duc, inflicting "heavy" losses on the defenders. Only 18 miles from President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital of Saigon, a U.S. military adviser on a training patrol with Vietnamese Rangers was wounded by a Viet Cong sniper. In the jungle north of the capital, a 500-man paratroop battalion was ambushed at the end of a three-hour forced march by 1,000 Communists...
Citing such examples as Chiang Kai-Shek in China, Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam, and Syngman Rhee in South Korea, Lattimore claimed that the U.S. could not possibly be successful in forcing a country to accept a form of government its people no longer wanted...