Word: ngo
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Defection from the army has occurred frequently since the war began, although the most dramatic army revolts have been merely attempts to unseat President Ngo Dinh Diem, not necessarily to replace him with the Viet Cong guerrillas. Last year two well-known air force heroes bombed the President's palace and escaped to the Cambodian border claiming to be anti-Communist nationalists and warning of more attacks in the future...
...weight down from 185 to 145, he signed four statements, "when I believed I was at the end of my physical endurance." The documents, which Matagulay later had to read aloud so that the Viet Cong could record them on tape, bitterly attacked South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem and the U.S.'s support for his government...
...view of the fact that it is highly unlikely that your cherished accolade is to be bestowed upon President Kennedy for a second year in succession (although he did nothing to earn it last year), I would like to suggest for Man of the Year, President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam. He is one of the few world leaders to be sincere and determined in the struggle against creeping and malignant Communism...
...they report consists mostly of grim, isolated jungle skirmishes; as for the big picture, they usually color it gloomy. But in recent months the gloom has been a few shades lighter, and at times hope has broken through. Last week, before the National Assembly in Saigon, President Ngo Dinh Diem announced: "We are recovering the initiative, even during the rainy season, which heretofore the enemy has considered favorable to him. Victory is not only sure but imminent." Among the hopeful signs cited by Diem...
...Communist Viet Cong. Taylor, who takes over as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff next month, last visited Viet Nam a year ago; from that trip came the stepped-up program of U.S. military and economic aid to the embattled nation. Last week, in talks with President Ngo Binh Diem and General Paul Harkins, boss of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, hardbitten Maxwell Taylor sought to assess the results. His conclusion: "We are making progress...