Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam's Supreme Court ruled provisionally that Ky was ineligible to run because he lacked a sufficient number of certified endorsements. If the Thieu-controlled court confirms that decision, as is virtually certain, there will be a two-man contest between Thieu and General Duong Van ("Big") Minh-unless Minh carries out his threat to drop out on the grounds that the election is rigged...
Last week it was Thieu's turn. In a Saigon press conference, he called Big Minh "a coward and a liar" and blamed him for the murders, quoting him as saying at the time of the coup that "the easiest way is to assassinate Diem...
Doomed Brothers. Why the debate? Minh might have been trying to minimize the damage he stands to suffer when the text of a long-secret 1964 post-mortem on the coup hits the newsstands in Saigon. The document, whose authenticity has not been verified by any of the principals involved, is a transcript of a tape of an alleged informal two-day "trial" of the coup leaders held in March 1964 by Nguyen Khanh, the stumpy general who overthrew the Minh junta three months after the Diem coup because he feared it was going "neutralist...
This week the Vietnamese daily Hoa Binh plans to publish the first of 30 installments of the transcript, purchased from a South Vietnamese lieutenant colonel who saw a chance to profit by the example of the Pentagon papers. Though Minh has long cast himself as a man untainted by involvement with the U.S. in general and with the blood of the Ngos in particular, the Diem document supports a fact well established in the Pentagon papers: that Americans had been in contact with Minh's group before the coup. It also implies that Minh knew that the brothers were...
...Questioned about $6,000 in U.S. currency that had allegedly been found in the palace when it was captured, Big Minh said it had been spent, but he could not recall how, why or by whom. Nor could anyone recall what had happened to twelve kilos of gold, worth $15,000, supposedly taken from a third Ngo brother, Ngo Dinh Can, after the coup...