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According to that picture there are two sides to the conflict in South Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem and the selfstyled National Liberation Front.' Since everybody knows that Diem is a dictator, and a not very benevolent one either, that makes the Front a band of 'freedom fighters,' at least On as Fidel Castro calls them 'Vietmese patriots...
...nine years which have followed France's defeat in the Indo-Chinese war, the United States has poured three billion dollars into South Vietnam to make that country a bulwark against Communism. If American aid had succeeded in its goal, Cold War expediency might have justified President Ngo Dinh Diem's nepotism, his thousands of political prisoners, censorship of the press, and concentration camps, where peasants who may be Viet Cong guerillas are quarantined from guerillas who may be peasants...
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...