Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator Ton That Dinh, onetime army officer who helped overthrow Diem: "There is a real need to reform the government. But at the same time something must be done to motivate the people to fight the Communists. We, like the Communists, are fighting a people...
...major task of church groups now is trying to help the huge army of homeless refugees created by the onslaught. Viet Nam Christian Service, supported by Lutheran World Relief, the Mennonites and Church World Service, has assumed responsibility for refugee relief in a number of areas, including Gia Dinh, a suburb of Saigon; often braving Communist fire, service volunteers have scrounged lumber to rebuild homes, hauled food, water and sleeping mats to refugee camps. Catholic Relief Services is now attempting to house and feed 87,000 new refugees in 27 centers...
...inability of both the United States and the South Vietnamese to cope with the attacks. We watched the government of South Vietnam and the American military call in air strikes against their own cities and their own civilians. We watched the whole Eastern industrial suburbs of Saigon, Gia Dinh, burned out, sector after sector, for five days running. And the thousands--hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring out of the area. We watched the whole of the area just south of the Ton Son Nhut Airport being burned out segment after segment for four and five days running. When...
...runners-up in the presidential campaign against Thieu, including the man who received the greatest number of votes in Saigon itself, Truong Dinh Do, have been arrested. As has the man who was behind him in the number of votes he received, Pham Khae...
...that optimistic light. Rather, it thinks that the Red offensive, emphasizing hit-and-run attacks in populated areas, reflects Hanoi's need to refurbish its once awesome image among the Vietnamese peasantry and to regain control of vital coastal areas and rice bowls, such as Binh Dinh province, that growing allied success has denied its troops...