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...salt-and-pepper suit and bright green tie, General Nguyen Van Hinh, head of the Vietnamese army, flew to Paris to interview his chief of state, Bao Dai. The 39-year-old general was loudly confident that he could undermine his arch rival, the Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, whose efforts he had been successfully frustrating back home...
...that they had better get behind Diem if they wanted U.S. sympathy or assistance. The Vietnamese national army, he indicated, must give up any thought of a coup d'état against Diem. At week's end Diem's mutinous chief of staff, Nguyen Van Hinh, packed his bags and moved off to Paris for "consultations...
...their colonial influence in the rubber-rich South by encouraging a pro-French clique of Vietnamese officers in intrigues against Diem. As a result of the intrigue, Diem is more or less locked up inside his Saigon capital by the forces of Army Chief of Staff General Nguyen Van Hinh, a graduate of the French air force academy, who has a French wife...
...religious" sect which controls the city's police and also Saigon's gambling (last spring Bao Dai gave him control of the national "surete," too). Another was General Nguyen Van Xuan. who had been Premier of Viet Nam in 1946. The third was General Nguyen Van Hinh, chief of staff of the army, who was still defying Diem's orders to quit his command and leave Indo-China...
...Hinh went around Saigon's cafes boasting that he could bring off a coup d'etat any time. "Diem doesn't know the people, and the people don't like him," Hinh said. "He has two good qualities. He's honest and pure. So is my daughter...