Word: tho
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Some 100 South Vietnamese newsmen and 20 foreign correspondents assembled in Saigon last week on command of Premier Nguyen Ngoc Tho. For three hours Tho castigated the performance of the very newspapers to which his government had pledged full freedom. He fumed at what he called their unconquerable tendency to print lies and "sensationalism." His criticism even extended to the character of some of the editors. One, he suggested, was an opium addict; another was playing footsie with the Communists. If the country's press did not mend its ways, concluded Tho, "the government would have to take...
...dailies (TIME, Dec. 13) had "cynically slandered the army and thus damaged the morale of the soldiers," the Ministry of Information closed all three "until further notice." The charge did not describe the newspapers' true offense-which was to criticize South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Ngoc Tho...
Three Strongmen. For the living, there remained the task of putting together a government. Premier Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Diem's longtime Vice President, appointed nine civilian ministers -mostly nonpolitical civil servants in the old regime. To counsel Tho's government, the brass named a 15-man "Council of Sages," including business and professional leaders. But it is the military that is running the country. Lieut. General Tran Van Don, 46, the polished, French-schooled staff officer who helped mastermind the coup, was appointed Defense Minister. Major General Ton That Dinh, 36, the aggressive, vain commander of the Saigon...
Sharing a Cell. Big Minh's "Military Revolutionary Committee" decided it would look better to have a civilian at least nominally at the head of the government, but they did not want another President. Named Premier was Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Diem's figurehead vice president since 1956, the highest-ranking Buddhist in Catholic Diem's regime. Like Minh, Tho is a southerner in a nation where regional loyalties are strong, and has been a close friend of Minh since the two shared the French prison cell...
Born in Longxuyen province 55 years ago, Tho joined the French civil service at 22, entered the Diem government in 1954 as Interior Minister. A modest, easygoing type who habitually sits in the front seat of his official limousine beside the driver, Tho has a reputation as a negotiator. Last June Tho negotiated a compromise pact between Buddhists and Diem, but the regime spurned it. Chances are that Premier Tho will remain as much of a figurehead as was Vice President Tho...