Word: ngo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wheel of life," air-dropped by chartered Cessna. Lining the parade route, sustaining themselves on peanuts, soda pop and peppered fish sticks, were 250,000 spectators. As the Buddhists celebrated the 2,508th year of Buddha's birth and the first anniversary of their successful campaign against President Ngo Dinh Diem, they plainly showed themselves a growing force in South Viet Nam. Significantly, neither Premier General Nguyen Khanh nor U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge was present at the ceremonies - a reflection of growing distrust of Buddhist aims...
...religious groups recently when Buddhists demanded the execution of Catholic Army Major Dang Sy, who is awaiting trial for giving the orders to fire on Buddhist demonstrators in Hué last year. Earlier the Buddhists had insisted that no mercy be shown to Diem's jailed brother, Ngo Dinh Can - who was executed even though Lodge privately pleaded with Buddhist leaders against the death penalty - or to Can's aide, Lieut. Phan Quang Dong, who was shot before an enthralled crowd of 8,000 in the stadium...
...crux of the matter is Viet Nam, and U.S. policymakers see precious few glimmers of hope that the situation there will improve. Perhaps the grimmest fact, from the U.S. point of view, is this: Whatever the shortcomings of Ngo Dinh Diem's regime, his ouster and murder have not accomplished the reforms they were supposed to. South Viet Nam's present leader, General Khanh, is trying hard enough to take hold, and in fact, Washington fears that if he were eliminated by a coup or a killer, there would be nobody left to maintain even the semblance...
...clock in the morning and sending them off to some camp for some real or fancied offense, it is setting in force some awfully basic and powerful emotions." The U.S., he says, wanted "oppressive and inhuman" practices stopped, urged religious freedom and wanted Diem's malevolent brother Ngo Dinh Nhu sent into exile. But "absolutely nothing" was done "either to stimulate or thwart a coup...
...Thus did Ngo Dinh Can, 53, brother of South Viet Nam's murdered Leaders Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, himself meet death last week at the hands of his nation's new military rulers. As President Diem's overlord of central Viet Nam, Can, a tough and willful man, kept his region notably free of Communist Viet Cong. After Diem's overthrow, he was arrested and tried for murder, illegal arrests and corruption; he was sentenced to die three weeks ago. Concerned that the execution might tarnish the image of Saigon...