Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...travails of his country. Thieu, whose name means "one who ascends," was born in the village of Ninh Chu on the South China Sea. His father was a farmer and fisherman, but his brother Hieu, 16 years his senior and now his Ambassador to Rome, was a Paristrained lawyer and the family's chief meal ticket. It was Hieu who sent Thieu to school in Saigon and Hué. Thieu had just finished high school when World War II began and the Japanese came. His first contact with the U.S. was inauspicious: American planes bombed Ninh Chu by mistake...
...partners and good friends was Nguyen Huu Tho, a onetime Saigon lawyer who now heads the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front. That friendship lent some credence in voters' minds to Dzu's claim to be able to negotiate with the Communists. Another law partner was Mme. Nhu's brother, Tran Van Khiem. It was a profitable alliance for both men since the Diem family connections gave them an inside track with judges and the police. Along the way, Dzu visited the U.S. and became such a fervent Rotary Club member that he served a stint...
...transition from military to constitutional rule any easier. Thieu's first job as President is to pick a Premier who, under the constitution, presides over the daily running of the government. Then Thieu must select a Cabinet. The Premier is likely to be his campaign manager, Saigon Lawyer Nguyen Van Loc, or perhaps Suu's running mate, Dr. Phan Quang Dan. In the effort to broaden the base of the government, a goodly number of the Cabinet posts are slated for civilians; Thieu and the U.S. had hoped Huong and Suu would be among those chosen. Even...
...Andreas case have now surfaced in the U.S., courtesy of Ramparts magazine, which, after the usual spate of advance publicity, published their story that agents of the KIP (the Greek CIA) coerced them into giving false testimony against Andreas. The two men, part-time Publisher Kyriakos Diakogiannis and Lawyer Andreas Vachliotis, had offered the story to other U.S. newsmen in Athens in return for air fare to a haven outside Greece. But until they got to Ramparts, they were unable to convince anyone of the truth of their tale...
...miscellaneous category, ABC has dusted off Person to Person, titled it Good Company, and put Trial Lawyer F. Lee Bailey in Edward R. Murrow's easy chair. First witness, Actor Tony Curtis, acquitted himself better than his inquisitor, but the jury should await forthcoming interviews with Everett Dirksen and Hugh Hefner before giving...