Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House officials-the CIA and the State Department had helped Convicted Wiretapper E. Howard Hunt Jr. carry out covert activities. These involved either the investigation of Ellsberg or the fabrication of cables falsely implicating President John Kennedy in the assassination of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem...
Arrayed against the NLF in its early days was the corrupt administrative apparatus of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime, whose power was increasingly based on terror. The NLF-planned assassinations of government bureaucrats in the countryside were intended to remove the repressive Saigonese presence from rural areas so land and other reforms could be implemented...
...that the papers included 1) some of Hunt's reports on Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick Island, and 2) some fake State Department cables contrived by Hunt to implicate President John Kennedy in the 1963 assassination of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. All of this presumably could have been used against Teddy's candidacy if the Senator had run against Nixon...
...does not contribute to clarifying the Vietnamese situation vis-a-vis the public. Her expertise, quickly acquired from superficial trips to south Viet-Nam and French colonial writings, is apt to sow more confusion among Americans and hide the real reasons for the U.S. involvement in Viet-Nam. Truong Dinh Hung Director, Vietnam Political Freedom Committee
...same time, the White House is trying to shore up the Lon Nol regime (see THE WORLD). But there are limits to U.S. intervention. The White House has no intention of repeating the kind of action that led to the bloody overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam. One possibility is a return to power of deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk. No one wants this more than Sihanouk, who just arrived back in Peking after a month-long visit to insurgent-held areas in Cambodia, where he tried to drum up support among the various factions...