Word: ngo
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...friendly regime that we have lost patience with is a lot easier than putting it back together again." So some of the men around John F. Kennedy learned in 1963 when they decided to authorize covert U.S. backing for an army coup against South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, whose anti-Buddhist repressions, they felt, were contributing to the political turmoil of the country and hampering the war effort. Diem was killed in the coup. What followed was a series of military Presidents who were unable to stem the deterioration of the situation...
...Perhaps the best single introduction to Vietnam is Fire in the Lake, the noted study by Frances Fitzgerald '62. Other books include: Vietnam: The Origins of Revolution, by John T. McAlister; Before the Revolution, by Ngo Vinh Long '64; War Comes to Long An, by Jeffrey Race '65; Hell in a Very Small Place, by Bernard Fall; and the selected writings of president Ho Chi Minh and general Vo Nguyen Giap...
...Name the first Buddhist monk to immolate himself in protest of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime...
...represent approximately 85 per cent of the population in South America. These two groups of indigenous American peoples are becoming increasingly unified in their battles for liberation. In February 1977, the indigenous peoples of the Americas gained representation when the U.N. conferred consultative status, as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in the United Nations, on the International Indian Treaty Council. The NGO is based in New York City, and directed by Jimmie Durham (a Cherokee). As a result of constant pleas and demands to the United Nations, the U.N. Non-Governmental Organization Subcommittee on Racism and Decolonization sponsored a conference...
Covert CIA payments to other key individuals abroad have been commonplace. Among the recipients: the late President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam; President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (formerly the Congo); Holden Roberto, head of a losing faction in the Angola civil war; and Eduardo Frei, former President of Chile. The Post also reported claims that money had gone to Archbishop Makarios III, the President of Cyprus, and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Each man vehemently denied the charge...