Word: ngo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Image to Spare. The personal weaponry, the guards and the barbed wire are no mere theatrical props. Last August, on his very first evening in Saigon, a top embassy officer insisted that the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem planned to invite him on a field trip, stage a fake Communist Viet Cong attack and kill Lodge in the confusion...
...some, Ngo Dinh Can seemed to be the ablest of the ill-fated Ngo brothers. Although he never held an official position in the Diem regime, he was the overlord of central Viet Nam. A rural Rasputin in high-collared mandarin robes who wenched and swindled lustily, he nevertheless ran his fief so effectively that it had less trouble from the Viet Cong than any other area. Can in vain advised his brothers, President Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, to ease the measures against the Buddhists-not out of idealism but to avoid rocking the boat...
...Three other Ngo brothers: Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc is in Rome; former Ambassador Ngo Dinh Luyen was last reported job hunting in London; Ngo Dinh Khoi was killed by the Communists a few years after World...
...Last week the government finally brought to trial on charges of murder and extortion Ngo Dinh Can, 53, brother of the slain President and former boss of Central Viet Nam. Can suffers from diabetes and spent his time in court on a stretcher...
Last week the government finally brought to trial on charges of murder and extortion Ngo Dinh Can, 53, brother of the slain President and former boss of Central Viet Nam. Can suffers from diabetes and spent his time in court on a stretcher...