Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, after he seized full power in Thailand late in 1958, announced bluntly: "They must go, and they must go soon." But who would take the Vietnamese refugees? Laos did not want them. Neither did South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, who feared loss of face if the refugees-mostly northerners, and Communist-indoctrinated-should reject an invitation from him. At this point, North Viet Nam's Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh offered to take in the refugees. And after the usual hard bargaining, an agreement was reached between the Communists and Thailand...
Belatedly alarmed, Ngo Dinh Diem sent "information teams" into northern Thailand to dissuade the refugees from choosing Communism, but few even showed up at Diem's neat little propaganda houses to hear his message. Last week the first 922 Vietnamese refugees boarded a ship in Bangkok for the five-day trip to Haiphong and North Viet...