Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these places you find certain unhappy political weaknesses," he said. "South Korea may be free now, but it still hasn't solved its political problems." President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam has a "'son of heaven' complex," he continued, and strong-man rule in Thailand has alienated the support of the moderates...
...Pathet Lao, still a tiny minority, are generally disliked in the areas they control. Within the past year, the U.S. has begun the kind of aid program that could in time have some grass-roots effect: an $8,600,000 all-weather road between Thakhet and Nam Ca Dinh. Fortnight ago, the U.S. granted $1,000,000 toward a rural development program of small dams, wells, schools...
South Viet Nam, since 1954 the recipient of more than $1 billion in U.S. aid, was digging itself out after a surprise revolt against autocratic President Ngo Dinh Diem by three crack paratroop battalions (TIME, Nov. 21). As firmly anti-Communist as Diem himself (most of them are refugees from Red-held North Viet Nam), the paratroopers mutinied to force a change in Diem's dictatorial ways, which they charged were costing him popular support in the fight against mounting Communist infiltration of South Viet Nam. But with the revolt safely crushed, Diem last week turned more dictatorial than...
...midafternoon, with some 20 people already dead, Ngo Dinh Diem still held out in his barricaded palace. Emissaries shuttled back and forth between the two sides. Diem offered to fire his Cabinet but refused the rebel demand that he resign. Diem's stubborn courage began to pay off. Marine, infantry and commando units moved into the city and, after wavering all night, declared their loyalty to him. Outmanned, the paratroopers fled. When a throng of civilians advanced on the palace waving "Diem Must Go" signs, the pro-Diem marines fired point-blank into the packed crowd, killing at least...
Stern Tactics. All Vietnamese recognize that unbending President Ngo Dinh Diem is the father of his country, acknowledge that without him the whole nation would have fallen to the Communist Viet Minh. With more than $1 billion in U.S. aid to help, he has policed the 17th parallel border with Communist North Viet Nam, resettled nearly a million refugees from the north, started ambitious road, railway and land-reform projects...