Word: pham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five days after the coup, Colonel Pham Van Dong, 44, was placed in command of the 7th Division, responsible for two provinces south of Saigon. In his first twelve days on the job, Dong launched seven major operations, but then the Viet Cong regained the initiative. When one village near the capital was severely shelled and several people were killed, the villagers complained bitterly. Even though such attacks are standard, the generals in Saigon fired Dong, to the disappointment of U.S. advisers. But why transfer him 1,400 miles away? According to one version, Dong had been too friendly with...
This declaration was signed by 14 generals, seven colonels and a major who have what for Americans are some of the most unpronounceable names on earth-such names as Brig. General Pham Xuan Chieu, Brig. General Nguyen Giac Ngo, and Brig. General Tran Tu Oai. At the top of the list was Big Minh and Lieut. General Tran Van Don. Like Minh, Don has been close to the Americans-so close that he went to a dinner for Admiral Felt the night before the coup, calmly saw Felt off at the airport shortly before the shooting started. "We have...
...Brigadier General Pham Xuan Chien, onetime director of security services, who was sacked by Nhu when his ambitions began to get out of hand. He now has the virtually meaningless job of assistant chief of staff...
...reasons for Diem's election success in the hinterland is a lean exCommunist named Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao, 39. Last year he accosted President Diem, told him that the reason the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas were scoring success after success lay in the shortcomings of Diem's own soldiery. "Our soldiers need social and political education," said Thao. "Their discipline is poor. They have no consideration for the people." Their "bad habits"-stealing rice, pigs and girls -were driving the villagers to the Communist cause...
...Abramov and Chinese Communist Ambassador Wang Yu-ping huddled about the ramp of the twin-engined Ilyushin-14 warned that the plane would have to fly "very high" and be blacked out. Reason: "U.S. jets" might try to shoot it down. At Hanoi that night. North Viet Nam Premier Pham Van Dong turned out at the runway with a cluster of pretty little girls bearing flowers, then drove Prince Souvanna off to the state guesthouse in a long cortege of limousines through streets dark and deserted except for the squads of soldiers guarding intersections. Early next morning, the Ilyushin flew...