Word: ngo
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South Viet Nam is clearly the target of a new Communist offensive in South east Asia. President Ngo Dinh Diem has doughtily faced crises before. Bolstered by $1 billion in U.S. aid, Diem courageously saved a nation that had been written off by the experts when it was created in 1955. He smashed the "armies" of the militant religious sects, welcomed and resettled nearly a million refugees who had fled Communist North Viet Nam, embarked on ambitious projects in road building, railways, land reform and agricultural credit. A start has been made in safeguarding the peasants by moving them from...
...Gulf of Thailand. Their total strength is now estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 men, concentrated in the swampy Mekong Delta-"a diseased part of the body," one U.S. observer calls it. It is a secret, hushed war of stealth and secrecy, since the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem suppresses all news of new murders or incidents. The Reds' special targets have been civil officials, and in recent months they have managed to murder an average of ten a day. One government administrator is still stubbornly at work, although he was shot six times by the Communists...
Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, after he seized full power in Thailand late in 1958, announced bluntly: "They must go, and they must go soon." But who would take the Vietnamese refugees? Laos did not want them. Neither did South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, who feared loss of face if the refugees-mostly northerners, and Communist-indoctrinated-should reject an invitation from him. At this point, North Viet Nam's Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh offered to take in the refugees. And after the usual hard bargaining, an agreement was reached between the Communists and Thailand...
Belatedly alarmed, Ngo Dinh Diem sent "information teams" into northern Thailand to dissuade the refugees from choosing Communism, but few even showed up at Diem's neat little propaganda houses to hear his message. Last week the first 922 Vietnamese refugees boarded a ship in Bangkok for the five-day trip to Haiphong and North Viet...