Word: ngo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed an inaccurate allegation has been made which may impugn my motives. The truth is that the Ngo Dinh Diem government did not expropriate any property of mine by application of its land reform of 1956. By that time most of the land I had in excess of the allowed 247 acres had been abandoned by me and even by the peasants because of insecurity in that area of the province of Rach-Gia during the long Indo-Chinese war of 1946-54. This can be checked at the Department of Land Reform in Saigon and will give an idea...
...early phases of the quarrel, Diem probably could and should have conciliated the Buddhists. But he vacillated. His brother and sister-in-law, Ngo Dinh Nhu and Mme. Nhu, insisted that unless the Buddhists were crushed, there would be a coup threatening the very existence of the family's rule. Mme. Nhu's fiery philippics lent impetus to the Buddhist movement just as it appeared to be flagging. By last week, after three Buddhist suicides spurred new protest demonstrations throughout the country, it was clearly too late for conciliation. Even if Diem had wanted it, the Buddhist leaders...
...Vietnamese student now studying in the U.S., I congratulate you on your extensive research into the private life of the first lady of our country, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu [Aug. 9]. You have left no doubt as to the oppressive, dictatorial nature of the ruling family in Viet...
...Quarrel Spreads. The three ritualistic suicides brought to five the number of Buddhists who have turned themselves into human torches in further protest against the regime of South Viet Nam's Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem. The government reacted by placing the Buddhist strong holds of Hué and Nhatrang under virtual martial law. Although worried that the burnings might get out of hand, Buddhist leaders defended the suicides as "noble sacrifices," were rounding up secular and military support...
Implied Rebuke. The President's apparent readiness to meet with the Buddhists is bitterly opposed by his sisterin-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, who has consistently urged that the Buddhist opposition be crushed. "If the President keeps bowing to the Buddhists," she said, "they will keep right on taking advantage of this weakness to make new, impossible demands. They are utterly hypocritical." With what sounded like a rebuke to Mme. Nhu, Diem countered: "It is only because some have contributed, either consciously or unconsciously, to raising doubts about this government's policy that the solution to the Buddhist...