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	Duong Van Minh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minh was the second highest ranking general at the time, and he led the coup to overthrow Diem at the end of 1963.
		Minh was going to run against Thieu in the 1971 election but he withdrew because it became obvious to him (and most other observers) that the elections were rigged.
		Duong Van Minh was allowed to emigrate to France in 1983, where he lived near Paris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duong_Van_Minh (1168 words)

	Celebrity Deathwatch: Gen. Duong Van Minh, Ex-president of South Vietnam, 86
		Minh was installed as the South Vietnamese president in April 1975 as the country crumbled under the onslaught from North Vietnam's Communist forces.
		Minh was widely regarded as the potential leader of a "third force" that could find an accommodation with the North to avoid an armed takeover, but the effort was stifled by Thieu's government.
		Minh himself kept a low political profile until 1975 when Hanoi's forces launched what would be the final offensive of their long struggle to take over the south.
	slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00332.html (700 words)

	General Duong Van Minh
		Minh kept a low political profile until 1975, when Hanoi's forces launched what would be the final offensive of their long struggle to take over the south.
		General Duong Van Minh, who as the last president of South Vietnam surrendered his country to Communist forces in 1975, has died in the United States at the age of 86.
		Duong Van Minh's military career began in the 1940s when he was one of only 50 Vietnamese officers to be commissioned in the French colonial army.
	www.soreze.com /duongvanm.htm (1778 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: General Duong Van Minh Dies at 86 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Minh died at a hospital in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Aug. 6, 2001.
		By Chelsea J. Carter/AP Gen. Duong Van “Big” Minh, who led a 1963 coup to overthrow South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and later took control of the country days before it fell, was remembered on Aug. 7 as a good soldier who lacked the political skills to help his country.
		Minh’s military career began in the 1940s when he was only one of 50 Vietnamese officers to be commissioned in the French colonial army.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_08_17/news_minhdeath.html (796 words)

	Duong Van Minh Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		General Duong Van Minh (born 1916) was the first and last of a string of leaders who governed South Vietnam in the dozen years between the overthrow of President Diem and the fall of Saigon.
		Minh was born into a wealthy Vietnamese family on February 19, 1916, in the Mekong River delta village of My Tho in Long An Province, just 35 miles southwest of Saigon.
		The campaign gave Minh some opportunity to put forth his views on democratic reform and possible means to end the war, but the retired four-star general openly expressed fears that he could be sent back into exile if he advocated a coalition government with Ho Chi Minh.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/duong-van-minh (1824 words)

	Minh, Duong Van - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MINH, DUONG VAN [Minh, Duong Van], 1916-2001, Vietnamese army officer and political leader.
		Minh returned in 1968, serving as an opposition leader against President Thieu.
		Vietnam Expresses Condolence on Death of Duong Van Minh.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-minh-d1uo.html (294 words)

	Cable from Ambassador Lodge Describing a Meeting between Lt. Col. Conein and General Duong Van Minh in which a Coup ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Minh added the Generals were aware of the situation is deteriorating rapidly and that action to change the Government must be taken or the war will be lost to the Viet Cong because the Government no longer has the support of the people.
		Minh made it clear that he did not expect any specific American support for an effort on the part of himself and his colleagues to change the Government but he stated he does need American assurances that the USG will not rpt not attempt to thwart this plan.
		Minh further stated that one of the reasons they are having to act quickly was the fact that many regimental, battalion and company commanders are working on coup plans of their own which could be abortive and a "catastrophe".
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/pentagon2/doc144.htm (857 words)

	GENERAL "BIG" MINH PASSED AWAY
		Minh was graduated from a French officer candidates school in 1936.
		According to the report, Gen. Minh stated that he was very happy to cast his ballot as a citizen of the unified and independent Vietnam.
		Until Gen. Minh left Vietnam for France in 1983, the Communist regime was treating him with smooth hands, not because he was any good to it, but only as an act of propaganda.
	www.vietquoc.com /na081101.htm (1026 words)

	Reporting America at War . David Halberstam . Coup in Saigon: A Detailed Account \| PBS
		One of the three was Duong Van Minh, known as Big Minh, who had a distinguished record as a combat leader, but who had been shunted aside because of Ngo Dinh Nhu's jealousies.
		Word of what was happening in Saigon reached Huyhn Van Cao in midafternoon, but he told the Seventh Division officers that Ngo Dinh Nhu had assured him this was a false coup and that the idea was to turn against the dissident elements before they could act.
		Duong Van Minh became Chairman of the committee.
	www.pbs.org /weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/halberstam/coup.html (4594 words)

	cbsnews.com
		Photo: AP Known as "Big Minh" because of his size, he was trained by French and later became the senior army officer when Ngo Dinh Diem established his government in 1955.
		He led the coup against Diem in November, 1963 and was himself toppled two months later.
		Minh took over the South Vietnamese regime again in April 1975 and surrendered to North Vietnamese troops in Saigon.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/saigon/viet_01.html (66 words)

	Nguyen Van Thieu
		Nguyen Van Thieu, leader of the Sai Gon regime for many years, fled abroad on April 21, 1975 when the liberation armed forces closed in on Sai Gon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and ended up settling in the United States.
		Nguyen Van Thieu was born on April 5, 1923, in the poor southern coastal province of Ninh Thuan.
		Minh had sought and received the communist authorities' permission to return to Vietnam to spend his last days, but his failing health finally prevented him.
	www.davifo.dk /Nguyen_Van_Thieu.htm (1142 words)

	Duong Van Minh Biography \| ema_02_package.xml
		Duong Van Minh was born in 1916 in My Tho in the Mekong Delta.
		Known as "Big Minh" because of his size (he was over six feet tall), he gained notoriety in 1956 when he captured Hoa Hao sect leader Ba Cut and had him publicly guillotined.
		In January 1964, Minh was overthrown in a coup led by General Nguyen Kahn.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/duong-van-minh-ema-02 (248 words)

	Duong Van Minh (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This got him the respect of the United States, and Minh was then sent there to study, where he attended the U.S. command and general staff college at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, despite his poor English.
		Minh then became President a few days later on April 28, 1975, promising to seek reconciliation with the North.
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	duong-van-minh.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1132 words)

	Van at Caribbean Topfunwebsites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'''''van''''' is also a common Dutch language word meaning "of" or "from", e.g.
		Unlike the German "von", the Dutch "van" is not an indication of nobility.
		Dick Van Dyke, Martin Van Buren) or in the case where the word is not of Dutch origin, as in Vietnamese names (e.g.
	www.topfunwebsites.com /suriname/van.html (135 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| The day the Vietnam War ended
		Inside the palace, all the cabinet members of the South Vietnamese government, with General Duong Van Minh as its president, were sitting around a big table, nervously drinking tea.
		His replacement, Duong Van Minh, had only one mission to accomplish, according to his former assistant and cabinet member, General Nguyen Huu Hanh.
		After handing over power, Duong Van Minh was asked to leave the palace with a group of communist officers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4491193.stm (933 words)

	Nhan Dan --- News
		On the morning of April 30 at the Independence Palace, Duong Van Minh was chairing a meeting with ministers of the Saigon puppet administration to prepare the ceremony to introduce the “new government” at 10am on the next morning.
		Then, Duong Van Minh read the statement, “I, General Duong Van Minh – President of the Saigon administration – call on all units to unconditionally surrender to the liberation forces of the south.
		The voice of the liberation army was resounded to all corners of the country and to the five continents, announcing the ever happy tidings that the cause of liberating the south had been achieved and the struggle against the US aggressors for national salvation ended in a complete success.
	www.nhandan.com.vn /english/news/miennam/morning.htm (1222 words)

	Nguyen Cao Ky
		Under the regime of Duong Van Minh, whose coup Ky had supported, he was made general.
		Ky intended to run, but at the last minute changed his mind and backed Thieu, a move he now calls "the biggest mistake of my life." Thieu nominated Ky as his running mate and the two were elected with 38% of the vote.
		From 1967-1971 he served as Vice President to President Nguyen Van Thieu, although behind the scenes there was a fierce rivalry between the two men that left Ky marginalized from the decision-making process.
	www.vietnamwar.net /Ky.htm (601 words)

	TIME.com: Invitation to an Exile -- Sep. 27, 1968 -- Page 1
		When Major General Duong Van Minh attempted to return to his native South Viet Nam in 1965, the tower at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport refused to grant his plane landing clearance and he had to head back into exile in neighboring Thailand.
		Last year Minh tried another route—by filing as a presidential candidate—only to have his application rejected by a military government that was well aware of his excellent chances of winning.
		Despite occasional speculation that Minh might be more acceptable to the Communists than any one of the present Saigon leaders, he makes it clear in an article in the current Foreign Affairs quarterly that they are not acceptable to him.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,902324,00.html (663 words)

	In Vietnam, even battle-scarred matrons eager to forgive
		HO CHI MINH CITY -- Twenty-five years ago, Reunification Palace was the scene of the last act in the drama of the Vietnam War.
		Duong Van Minh was left to greet the victors.
		They took in the splendor of the building, including the room where "Big Minh," as he was known, waited for the first communist soldiers to enter on April 30, 1975.
	www.post-gazette.com /headlines/20000428vietnam7.asp (956 words)

	The Ultimate Van Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		Van, a swedish musical group active in the late 1990s.
		"van" is also a common Dutch word meaning "of" or "from", e.g.
		as in Ludwig van Beethoven or George Vancouver, equivalent to the German "von".
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Van (123 words)

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		Nguyen Van Thien, CO, Fifth Division, III Corps, is a Catholic from Central Vietnam.
		Brigadier General Huynh Van Cao, CG, IV Corps, bordering Saigon on the South, is probably loyal to the regime.
		Dam is close to Major General Tran Van Minh, Permanent Secretary General, Ministry of National Defense, and Inspector General, ARVN, and Secretary of State at Presidency Nguyen Dinh Thuan.
	www.presidency.ucsb.edu /vietnam/showdoc.php?docid=2 (5726 words)

	Duong Van Minh — Infoplease.com
		Van Minh was head of government in 1963, before going into exile.
		Duong Van Minh - Minh, Duong Van, 1916–2001, Vietnamese army officer and political leader.
		Vietnam as a 'domain of manifest civility' (Van Hien chi Bang).
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0883811.html (297 words)

	General Le Van Hung
		When President Tran Van Huong resigned and as General Duong Van Minh took control of the government, my husband knew that there would be no peace settlement and that there would not be any last-minute agreement between the North and the South.
		Remember that General Duong Van Minh twice destroyed (Minh headed the coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and ordered the murder of Diem and his brother) the country and had stained its history and lowered himself down to sign his name to a treacherous document that offered his country to the enemy.
		When Duong Van Minh declared his surrender of South Vietnam to the Communists a number of soldiers just left the miltary and went home.
	www.generalhieu.com /lvhung-2.htm (5722 words)

	Index Dr-Dz
		Afterwards Duong, the second-highest ranking general at the time, briefly served as head of state under a military junta.
		Duong was widely regarded as the potential leader of a "third force" that could find an accommodation with the North to avoid an armed takeover, but the effort was stifled by Nguyen's government.
		Although Duong was thought to be a leader acceptable to the Communists, he was unable to seek a reconciliation with the North.
	rulers.org /indexd4.html (11208 words)

	The Binh Xuyen: Order and Opium in Saigon
		Blaming the Viet Minh for his friend's suicide, Ba Duong began building a movement to oust Nguyen Binh, but was strafed and killed by a French aircraft a few weeks later, well before his plans had matured.
		Shortly after Ba Duong's death in February 1946, the Binh Xuyen held a mass rally in the heart of the Rung Sat to mourn their fallen leader and elect Bay Vien as his successor.
		By April 1954 the Binh Xuyen military commander, Lai Van Sang, was director-general of police, and the Binh Xuyen controlled the capital region and the sixty-mile strip between Saigon and Cap Saint Jacques.
	www.drugtext.org /library/books/McCoy/book/28.htm (6421 words)

	Le général Duong Van Minh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On l'appelait "Big" Minh, le "grand" Minh, parce qu'il était d'une taille supérieure à la moyenne, et aussi pour le distinguer d'un autre officier, le général Tran Van Minh, le "petit" Minh.
		Duong Van Minh était un vrai sudiste - il est né le 16 février 1916 à My-Tho, dans le delta du Mékong -, avec son allure de brave homme, bon vivant, nonchalant, peu démonstratif, mais sympathique et chaleureux.
		Ancien sous-officier des forces françaises, Duong Van Minh fait une école d'officiers à proximité de Hanoï avant d'intégrer, à l'époque de Bao Daï, la toute jeune armée de l'Etat du Vietnam.
	perso.numericable.fr /~patrickgu/cantho/infovn/gminh.htm (534 words)

	National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
		When Ho Chi Minh* and the Vietminh* invaded Hanoi and met no resistance from the occupying Japanese forces in 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, with Minh as the internationally-recognized leader.
		President Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, are assassinated during the coup, and Duong* Van Minh names himself nominal chairman of the governing replacement, the Military Revolutionary Council.
		Led by Ho Chi Minh, the organization was formed by the Indochinese Communist Party to propagate Vietnamese patriotism and ultimately achieve freedom from foreign imperialism during the Indochina War.
	www.nvvam.org /education/general/rollcall.htm (1660 words)

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