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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...
...stands just under 6 ft. and weighs around 200 lbs., has a pronounced slouch caused from constantly having to stoop over to hear his countrymen. American military advisers nicknamed him Big to distinguish him from a smaller-statured fellow officer who is not related to him, Lieut. General Tran Van ("Little") Minh. Vietnamese good-naturedly call Minh...
...Trail of Stench." That evening Mme. Nhu sallied forth in search of her estranged father, Tran Van Chuong, who was replaced as Vietnamese Ambassador to Washington two months ago after criticizing Diem's policies. With a score of newsmen and photographers trailing her, she pounded on the door of the darkened Tran home on a tree-lined Washington street while her lovely, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, rang the bell. No answer. Next she peeped through a window. No signs of life. She went around to the back door. Still no answer. No wonder. The Trans were...
...GOOD NEWS and PHU ON NHU. But for the most part the crowds were merely curious. As for the press, it was ready with plenty of loaded questions. No sooner did Mme. Nhu arrive in New York than one reporter asked if she were "power-hungry," as her father, Tran Van Chuong, recently resigned as Saigon's ambassador to Washington, had claimed. "If I am," she replied in her rapid-fire but often imprecise English, "I would not indulge in such quixotism. I would betray Viet Nam instead of trying to help it. I am having the behavior...
...Major General Duong Van Minh, a tough, husky type whose mouth is filled with gold-capped broken teeth and who is regarded as one of the best officers in South Viet Nam. He is known as "Big" Minh, to distinguish him from Brigadier General Tran Van Minh, or "Little" Minh, no kin. He has no command at present, but serves as Diem's "military assistant...