Word: diem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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South Viet Nam, since 1954 the recipient of more than $1 billion in U.S. aid, was digging itself out after a surprise revolt against autocratic President Ngo Dinh Diem by three crack paratroop battalions (TIME, Nov. 21). As firmly anti-Communist as Diem himself (most of them are refugees from Red-held North Viet Nam), the paratroopers mutinied to force a change in Diem's dictatorial ways, which they charged were costing him popular support in the fight against mounting Communist infiltration of South Viet Nam. But with the revolt safely crushed, Diem last week turned more dictatorial than...
...midafternoon, with some 20 people already dead, Ngo Dinh Diem still held out in his barricaded palace. Emissaries shuttled back and forth between the two sides. Diem offered to fire his Cabinet but refused the rebel demand that he resign. Diem's stubborn courage began to pay off. Marine, infantry and commando units moved into the city and, after wavering all night, declared their loyalty to him. Outmanned, the paratroopers fled. When a throng of civilians advanced on the palace waving "Diem Must Go" signs, the pro-Diem marines fired point-blank into the packed crowd, killing at least...
Stern Tactics. All Vietnamese recognize that unbending President Ngo Dinh Diem is the father of his country, acknowledge that without him the whole nation would have fallen to the Communist Viet Minh. With more than $1 billion in U.S. aid to help, he has policed the 17th parallel border with Communist North Viet Nam, resettled nearly a million refugees from the north, started ambitious road, railway and land-reform projects...
...main road near the sea resort of Cap Saint-Jacques; he was one of the 800 soldiers and civilians who fall to the Communist terrorists every month in South Viet Nam. Three weeks ago emboldened Viet Minh guerrillas struck into South Viet Nam by way of chaotic Laos, engaged Diem's army in pitched fighting for a week. Pleading the Communist threat, Diem has ruled with rigged elections, a muzzled press, and political re-education camps that now hold 30,000. His key-and prosperous-advisers are four brothers and a pretty sister-in-law. The twin frustrations...
...Diem seems to have won out again. The conditions that brought on the revolt remained...