Word: ngo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...authority on foreign policy than a famed floor leader. He made three trips to Indo-China during the years when the French were letting it slip down the drain, concluded that the best solution there was partition, with South Viet Nam under a native, anti-Communist regime headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. Re-examining the situation last month, Mansfield urged that neutralization of both North and South Viet Nam ought to be contemplated. President Johnson had considerable trouble convincing South Viet Nam's leaders that Senate Leader Mansfield was not speaking for the Administration, but just for himself...
...most forgotten United Nations fact-finding missions on record was the seven-member delegation that journeyed to South Viet Nam last October. No sooner did the mission arrive in Saigon to investigate Buddhist claims of religious persecution than the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown. Whether the Buddhists had been victims of the Diem regime, or consummate political agitators-or both-overnight became a neglected question. Though every presumed Buddhist immolation had made front pages for months, editors barely noted or even read the 250-page U.N. report when it was published in December...
News photos out of Saigon last week showed two Vietnamese soldiers ushering through a courtroom door a little man in white who seemed so weak that he had to be held on his feet. He was Ngo Dinh Can, 50, brother of South Viet Nam's two murdered ex-leaders, Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, and once the tough overlord of central Viet Nam. While Can ruled, the Viet Cong moved warily in the region, but he made lots of other enemies as well. Fleeing for his life after the anti-Diem coup, Can sought asylum...
Thus, only three months after the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Big Minh's regime was itself overturned in a bloodless coup that was so well planned and unexpected that most Saigon citizens first heard of it from a government broadcast 16 hours later. Arrested with Minh were Commander in Chief General Tran Van Don; General Le Van Kim, chief of the joint general staff; Interior Minister General Ton That Dinh; and National Police Chief General Mai Huu Xuan...
...South Viet Nam, there was still hope for victory in the grinding war against the Viet Cong Communists. But to many an American observer, the hope may be forlorn unless there are some victories soon over the Red guerrillas. In the third month after the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem, the Viet Cong still reign supreme in 13 of the country's 43 provinces. The Communists control half of Long An Province on Saigon's southern flank (see map). From the fifth-floor terrace bar of the city's Majestic Hotel, idlers can view both bikini...