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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were put in a crowded, reeking cell with neither light nor toilet, ankle-deep in human excrement. Minh "almost went crazy," was freed after three months, thanks to a fellow prisoner who was released before Minh and intervened on his behalf with the French commandant. The friend: Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Diem's Vice President and the military junta's choice last week for Premier. Although Minh is universally deemed anti-Communist and pro-West, the experience in jail heightened his nationalism. However, after his release, he accepted a promotion to 1st lieutenant in the French forces, spent four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Revolution in the Afternoon | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...having discovered that an opportunity for power now exists outside the Ngo family, various military factions may well begin to jockey for sole authority. At week's end, according to one report, this fear was realized at the small town of My Tho, just south of Saigon, where Buddhist and Catholic troops turned on each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Crackdown | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...Communist Viet Cong was obviously trying to capitalize on the Buddhist crisis. Stepping up their attacks, the Red guerrillas wounded 14 U.S. advisers in a mortar barrage on a U.S. compound in Can Tho and killed three Americans when the Reds shot up a U.S. medical convoy north of Saigon. A fourth adviser was killed later in the week when jittery sentries began shooting at each other in the dark. The dead brought to 89 the number of U.S. troops killed in the war in South Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Buddhist Crisis | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...Tho' hard to you this journey may appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mormons: Singing Saints | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...Malaya's most ardent bird watchers is British-educated Dato Loke Wan Tho, 47, boss of more than 30 companies with large holdings in copra, rubber, tin, banking and real estate. Currently Loke has a particularly exciting flock under observation. As a public service, he volunteered four years ago to become unpaid chairman of Malayan Airways Ltd. To revive the rundown line, Loke ordered a fleet of Fokker F-27s to replace decrepit DC-3s and leased a BOAC Comet. This week, in cooperation with Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways and Thai International, Malayan will begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Personal File: Jan. 4, 1963 | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

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