Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shaky state of southern Viet Nam rocked perilously last week between two proud patriots struggling for power...
...struggle was between Premier Ngo Dinh Diem and the army's Chief of Staff Nguyen Van Hinh. and it had deep roots. Premier Diem, for years a voluntary exile from his land while the French ran it, had lost face when Geneva partitioned Viet Nam over his protests, lost followers when partition left most of his Roman Catholic supporters in Communist hands, lost public confidence because of his reluctance to take men from southern Viet Nam (where he himself is little known) into his Cabinet. On the other side, he and the anti-French nationalists around him distrusted handsome...
Plot & Counterplot. General Hinh and his eager young army officers thought the times called for more vigorous measures in southern Viet Nam, on the model of Colonel Nasser's in Egypt, to save the country from Communists. Last week, suspecting a "latent plot" to overthrow his government. Premier Diem abruptly relieved Hinh as chief of staff and ordered him to leave Saigon on the Air France plane next day for Paris on "six months' leave." Enclosed was a ticket. Defiantly, Hinh called the airline, told the clerk to cancel the reservation. To Diem he explained : "There...
...Protects treaty members in the area, as well as any other nations in the area willing to join later and unanimously accepted. A special protocol extends "a mantle of protection" to the Indo-China states of Laos, Cambodia and southern Viet Nam (which are debarred by the Geneva agreement from entering military commitments of their own). ¶ Provides, in the key Article IV, that in event of aggression, each signatory will regard an attack as endangering "its own peace and safety," and will undertake in that event "to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes...
...Communists returned some 15,000 prisoners; the French sent 63,000 Viet Minh captives back to Communism. This left unknown the fate of about 25,000 French Union troops, including 20,000 Vietnamese, and the Communists showed no sign of accounting for them. Among those freed by the Reds were five U.S. Air Force technicians, captured while absent without leave and swimming at a beach...