Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also avidly compared by acquaintances. "Bill is less driven," says one friend. "Mac is tougher and more aggressive and perhaps more incisive," says another. Watching the two Bundys operate during the Viet Nam crisis, newsmen came up with their own evaluation. Inspired by the references to "Big Minh" and "Little Minh" in dispatches from Saigon, they took to referring to the Bundys as "Big Mac" and "Little Mac." By "Big Mac," they meant McGeorge, who though the younger and shorter by half a foot is presently the more powerful of the two. From the looks of things, though, a little...
Over both the Cabinet and the "sages" is the rebel officers' 23-member "Military Revolutionary Committee," which last week decreed that "the legislative and executive powers are centralized" in itself, and named General "Big" Minh Chief of State. Within the committee is a twelve-man inner council, with Big Minh as chairman, Don and Dinh as vice chairmen-obviously the ruling triumvirate...
...Corpses. Behind the first euphoric reaction to the coup there was some fairly grim political business for the crowd of generals who had accomplished it. The officers under Lieut. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh first moved to consolidate their victory. Reportedly they executed the captured commander of Diem's elite Special Forces, Colonel Le Quang Tung, his brother, the Special Forces Chief of Staff, Major Le Quang Trieu, and a former leader of Diem's Republican youth. They also placed under "protective custody" several former Diem officials...
...already appearing as little Major General Ton That Dinh injected himself into the limelight with amazing speed. In the first week of victory, Security Minister Dinh conducted several press conferences of his own, and during one interview, while protesting that "we must stay as one," Dinh insinuated that Big Minh was really only his "front...
...betting that, for at least half a year or so, the generals will stand together, and there are high hopes for a more vigorous, more efficient pursuit of the war against the Communists, with more autonomy for local commanders than allowed by Diem. Said Big Minh: "Our main problem is to make the population happy. This and the military problem are intertwined. If the population does not feel protected, it will go over to the Viet Cong...