Word: ngo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cong are aiming for. Some Americans believe that the new Red attacks are meant to push the Vietnamese army into carrying out a coup to set up a neutralist regime. Given the petty politicking still being waged by Vietnamese politicians six months after the U.S.-encouraged overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem,* such a prospect is not impossible. Premier Nguyen Khanh so far has had the barracks behind him, but at week's end yet another wave of coup rumors rippled through Saigon, then subsided. No one realizes more clearly the possible repercussions of another coup than U.S. Secretary...
...survival might be expected to galvanize support behind the country's new ruler, General Nguyen Khanh, who seems sincere and energetic in his efforts to press the anti-Communist war. But Saigon's politicians are once again engaged in their petty intrigues, which prompted the late President Ngo Dinh Diem to keep them under firm control. Sipping coffee at sidewalk cafes, Saigon's intelligentsia carp about Khanh's attempts to rally the capital into the backlands war it has so long regarded as something apart. The Premier has ordered all male university graduates to report...
Past Terror. Only weeks before, one traveled the road, which runs six miles from Tanhiep to the village of Phumy, in terror if at all. Last November, a Viet Cong unit armed with mortars had occupied Phumy, evidently emboldened by the confusion that followed the coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem. To intimidate the people, the Reds smashed the marketplace, assassinated two village councilmen and a health worker, used the crucifix of a church for target practice...
...authority on foreign policy than a famed floor leader. He made three trips to Indo-China during the years when the French were letting it slip down the drain, concluded that the best solution there was partition, with South Viet Nam under a native, anti-Communist regime headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. Re-examining the situation last month, Mansfield urged that neutralization of both North and South Viet Nam ought to be contemplated. President Johnson had considerable trouble convincing South Viet Nam's leaders that Senate Leader Mansfield was not speaking for the Administration, but just for himself...
...most forgotten United Nations fact-finding missions on record was the seven-member delegation that journeyed to South Viet Nam last October. No sooner did the mission arrive in Saigon to investigate Buddhist claims of religious persecution than the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown. Whether the Buddhists had been victims of the Diem regime, or consummate political agitators-or both-overnight became a neglected question. Though every presumed Buddhist immolation had made front pages for months, editors barely noted or even read the 250-page U.N. report when it was published in December...