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	Ngo Dinh Diem article - Ngo Dinh Diem Vietnamese Chinese January 1901 November 1963 South Vietnam - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Ngo Dinh Diem (Vietnamese Ngô Ðình Diệm, Chinese 吳廷琰 January 3, 1901 - November 1, 1963) was the first President of South Vietnam (1955-63).
		Dinh Diem was born in Huế, the original capital of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam.
		Ngo Dinh Diem was also passionately anti-communist and the formation of the National Liberation Front, or Viet Cong, was a direct result of his rule.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Ngo_Dinh_Diem (790 words)

	Ngo Dinh Nhu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ngo Dinh Nhu, born in Vietnam, was the younger brother and chief political advisor of South Vietnam's first President Ngo Dinh Diem and their brother Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc of Hue.
		On November 1, 1963, he was assassinated, along with his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem, by Captain Nhung during a coup d'etat led by General Duong Van Minh with the understanding that the United States would not intervene.
		At the time of the coup d'etat Madame Nhu was in Beverly Hills, California their daughter, Le Thuy, for a trip to the United States and Italy, where she intended to expose a scheming President John F. Kennedy and the CIA to the American public.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Nhu (297 words)

	Encyclopedia: Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu
		Ngo Dinh Nhu Ngo Dinh Nhu was born in Vietnam, he was the younger brother and chief political advisor of South Vietnams first President Ngo Dinh Diem and their brother Bishop Thuc of Hue.
		Madame Nhu was said to be called the "Dragon Lady" because she said she would "clap hands at seeing another monk barbecue show." (She was referring to ThÃch Quáº£ng Ãá»©c, who poured flammable liquids over himself and meditated calmly while burning himself to death).
		On November 1, 1963 her brother-in-law President Ngo Dinh Diem and her husband Ngo Dinh Nhu were assassinated in a coup d'Ã©tat led by General Duong Van Minh with the understanding that the United States would not intervene.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Madame-Ngo-Dinh-Nhu (2036 words)

	Ngo Dinh Nhu
		Younger brother and chief political advisor of Ngo Dinh Diem.
		Ngo Dinh Nhu ran his brother's regime of secret political movements, the Can Lao.
		Nhu's wife, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu[?] or "Madame Nhu", was also influential on government policy and, since her brother-in-law leader was unmarried, was regarded as the "First Lady" of Vietnam.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ng/Ngo_Dinh_Nhu.html (85 words)

	Ngo Dinh Diem
		Ngo Dinh Diem (吳廷琰 January 3, 1901 - November 1, 1963) was the first President of South Vietnam (1955-63).
		He was a civil servant in the government of Bao Dai until the war and was a strong nationalist and anti-Communist; his elder brother (Ngo Dinh Thuc[?]) was archbishop of Hue.
		The U.S. supported a military coup d'etat of ARVN generals that overthrew the government and executed Ngo his younger brother (Ngo Dinh Nhu) and some others in November.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ng/Ngo_Dinh_Diem.html (248 words)

	Reporting America at War . David Halberstam . Coup in Saigon: A Detailed Account \| PBS
		The vanity of an ambitious young general, Ton That Dinh appears to have been a key factor in the train of events that led to the overthrow of the Ngo family regime and the deaths of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu.
		Ngo Dinh Nhu was against this; he wanted him arrested and interrogated to find the names of the other plotters.
		Ton That Dinh then drew up plans that were presented to Ngo Dinh Diem as plans for Operation Bravo, a show of force, and that were to the other generals the start of moves for the coup.
	www.pbs.org /weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/halberstam/coup.html (4594 words)

	ngodinhdiemnov.63 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Ari R. Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of South Vietnam, was assassinated in a Saigon suburb on November 2, 1963.
		Ngo Dinh Diem was strongly anti-Communist, and this was why the U.S. supposedly supported him.
		Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother were both captured and assassinated in trying to flee from Saigon.
	www.gfsnet.org /msweb/sixties/ngodinhdiemnov63.htm (536 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Diem Ngo Dinh
		Diem, Ngo Dinh (1901-1963), president of South Vietnam (1955-1963), born in Quang Binh.
		On November 1, 1963, the Diem regime was overthrown in a military coup.
		Diem and his brother and political adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, were executed.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Diem_Ngo_Dinh.html (96 words)

	Ngo Dinh Diem biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Ngo Dinh Diem (Vietnamese Ngô Ðình Diệm, Chinese ; 吴庭艳);January 3, 1901 - November 2, 1963) was the first President of South Vietnam (1955-63).
		Ngo Dinh Diem was also passionately anti-Communist and many attribute rising sympathy for the NVA-backed National Liberation Front (otherwise known as the Viet Cong) to his rule.
		In their defense, Diem and Nhu claimed that the Communists had infiltrated the Buddhist groups, and that their crackdown was in accordance with the agreed-upon anti-Communist policy.
	ngo-dinh-diem.biography.ms (1164 words)

	Peter Martin Ngo-Dinh-Thuc - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Archbishop Peter Martin Ngo Dinh Thuc (October 6, 1897–December 13, 1984), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hué, Vietnam, was born in Hué, on October 6, 1897, of Catholic parents.
		Thuc's brother, Ngo Dinh Khoi, was buried alive because of his refusal to become a minister in the first communist government.
		Thuc's three other brothers, Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Nhu and Ngo Dinh Can, his close collaborators, were all assassinated.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ngo-Dinh-Thuc (760 words)

	Le Xuan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu or Madame Nhu, born Tran Le Xuan, a granddaughter of Emperor Dong Khanh and she was married to Ngo Dinh Nhu.
		Madame Nhu was in Beverly Hills, California at the time the news first broke, and she immediately suspected the United States saying, "Whoever has the Americans as allies does not need enemies".
		Madame Nhu had all of her property confiscated by the new military government in Saigon and was not allowed back in the country.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Le-Xuan.htm (514 words)

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		But when Ngo Dinh Diem came to power, his brother, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, ordered that a Catholic cathedral be built, and he declared that the woman had been Mary, the Virgin Mother of Jesus, and not Avalokitesvara.
		Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother were killed by an angry military officer.
		Ngo Dinh Diem and his family overthrew themselves with their narrow minds, their lack of understanding, and their inability to listen to the wishes of the nation.
	www.quangduc.com /BoTatQuangDuc/17nonviolent.html (4922 words)

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		His brother's wife Madame Nhu was South Vietnam's First Lady and she led the way in Diem's programs to reform Saigon society according to his own Catholic values.
		Madame Nhu infamously referred to the incident as a 'barbequeing'.
		At the time of the coup d'etat Madame Nhu was in Beverly Hills, California with her daughter, Le Thuy, for a trip to the United States and Italy, where she intended to expose a scheming President John F. Kennedy and the CIA to the American public.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Ngo_Dinh_Diem (1235 words)

	Choosing War
		From the moment of Ngo Dinh Diem's appointment as prime minister in 1954, American officials had been concerned about his shortcomings as a leader—his political myopia, his tendency toward paranoia, his unwillingness to delegate authority beyond his immediate family.
		For the past year, Nhu had told British and French officials that there were too many Americans in South Vietnam, and he had become more insistent on the issue in the spring of 1963.
		Nhu's claims regarding the existence of North-South contacts take on added credibility when one considers that it was in North Vietnam's interest to explore the thinking of the de facto leader of the southern regime.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/l/logevall-war.html (7153 words)

	America in Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The onset of total chaos was arrested by the appearance on the scene of one of the strangest political leaders ever to walk the stage of history, Ngo Dinh Diem.
		With the assistance of well-timed Saigon street demonstrations orchestrated by his younger brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, he convinced the Americans that he was a credible national leader, insuring the indispensable sanction and support of the United States.
		Ngo Dinh Diem's assumption of the Presidency on 26 October, 1955, marked the birth of the Republic of South Vietnam, and even his detractors had to admit that he had demonstrated amazing staying power.
	ehistory.osu.edu /vietnam/books/aiv/0013.cfm (855 words)

	MSN Encarta - Diem, Ngo Dinh
		His brother Ngo Dinh Nhu was head of the National Police; another brother, Ngo Dinh Can, effectively exercised one-man rule in central Vietnam; yet another brother, Ngo Dinh Thuc, was archbishop of Saigon.
		Nhu’s secret police acted like gangsters, and Nhu himself was known to profit from the traffic in drugs and prostitution.
		On November 2, 1963, in a suburb of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Diem was assassinated along with his brother Nhu while both attempted to flee.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576219/Diem_Ngo_Dinh.html (874 words)

	Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		She was the wife of (Click link for more info and facts about Ngo Dinh Nhu) Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of South Vietnam's first President (Click link for more info and facts about Ngo Dinh Diem) Ngo Dinh Diem.
		She was influential on government policy and, since her brother-in-law leader, (Click link for more info and facts about Ngo Dinh Diem) Ngo Dinh Diem was unmarried, was regarded as the " (The wife of a chief executive) First Lady" of Vietnam.
		In the 1990s, she was reportedly living on the French Riviera and charging the press for interviews, and has been listed in biographical publications as recent as 2001.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/madame_ngo_dinh_nhu.htm (607 words)

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		The Buddhist protest was regarded as an affront to the Ngo family, and the kind of dramatic reply that Americans were urging on the Government was seen as a sign of weakness.
		Ngo Dinh Nhu's Women's Solidarity Movement issued a bitter statement implying that the Buddhists were infiltrated by Communists.
		Ngo Dinh Nhu was furious when she heard that her brother-in-law was about to sign the communique.
	www.mosquitonet.com /~prewett/budcri262272.html (3939 words)

	SparkNotes: The Vietnam War (1945-1975): Diem and the Republic of Vietnam: 1955–1960
		Upon taking office, Ngo Dinh Diem quickly developed a reputation for using force rather than democratic means to initiate change.
		In the years that followed, Madame Nhu would emerge as a notorious figure in Vietnam and on the world stage; arrogant, extravagant, and prone to nasty, on-the-record comments, she created one public relations disaster after another for the U.S.-backed Diem government.
		Although the Ngo family was universally hated in South Vietnam, Diem, despite his Catholic faith and dictatorial tendencies, had been widely respected as a sincere nationalist in the years before he came to power.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/vietnamwar/section4.rhtml (934 words)

	Ngo Dinh Diem Biography / Biography of Ngo Dinh Diem Biography Biography
		Ngo Dinh Diem (1901-1963) was South Vietnam's first premier and president.
		The son of a minister and councilor to a former Vietnamese emperor, Ngo Dinh Diem was born Jan. 3, 1901, near Hue.
		His family had always been clannish, and he became increasingly dependent on the advice of his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, whose attractive and assertive wife also played a major role in his government.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-ngo-dinh-diem/index.html (640 words)

	The Pentagon Papers, Vol. 2, Chapter 4, "The Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem, May-November, 1963"
		Nhu had been initially cool to the idea, but once he established the U.S. willingness to fund the program, he focused on it as the principal vehicle of the counterinsurgency campaign and as an excellent means of extending the oligarchy's control into the countryside.
		Nhu publicly ridiculed the Buddhist suicide as a "barbecue," accused the Buddhist leaders of being infiltrated with communists, and construed the protest movement as Viet Cong inspired.
		Both Nhu and his wife worked publicly and privately to undermine Diem's feeble efforts at compromise with the Buddhists, and rumors that Nhu was considering a coup against his brother began to circulate in July.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/pentagon2/pent6.htm (14708 words)

	Author's Desktop: James Ellroy
		Kennedy and the new Vietnamese ambassador, Henry Cabot Lodge, concluded that the Diem regime was becoming an embarrassing liability, and that Ngo Dinh Nhu and Madame Nhu were the heart of the problem.
		Madame Nhu was in the U.S. Premier Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu hid in the basement of the presidential palace.
		The opium traffic has financed dozens of coups and coup attempts, and the late Ngo Dinh Nhu was planning to circumvent Premier Diem's anti-opium edict at the time of his death.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/ellroy/desktop7.html (2873 words)

	SparkNotes: The Vietnam War (1945-1975): Key People & Terms
		Nhu’s excesses were largely responsible for the U.S.-backed coup of November 1963 in which both Diem and Nhu were assassinated.
		The wife of Ngo Dinh Nhu and de facto first lady of the corrupt South Vietnamese government under Ngo Dinh Diem.
		Madame Nhu was a hated figure and public relations disaster, a sort of Vietnamese Marie-Antoinette who cared nothing for the struggles of Vietnamese peasants and displayed an extravagant fondness for all things French, despite the fact that the French were the hated former colonial masters of Vietnam.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/vietnamwar/terms.html (3684 words)

	AllRefer.com - Vietnam - The Fall of Ngo Dinh Diem \| Vietnamese Information Resource
		His brother and chief adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, was identified by regime opponents as the source of many of the government's repressive measures.
		On August 21, special forces under the command of Ngo Dinh Nhu raided the pagodas of the major cities, killing many bonzes and arresting thousands of others.
		Diem and Nhu were assassinated in a military coup in early November, and General Duong Van Minh took over the government.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/vietnam/vietnam38.html (819 words)

	JFK and the Diem Coup
		The Saigon government was headed by President Ngo Dinh Diem, an autocratic, nepotistic ruler who valued power more than either his relations with the Vietnamese people or progress in fighting the communists.
		Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Nhu sat in the presidential palace as private counselor, manipulator, emissary, and puppetmaster of the Saigon government.
		Nhu conducted the raids in such a way as to suggest that South Vietnamese military commanders were behind them, and used troops funded by the United States through the CIA to carry out the raids.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101 (5518 words)

	Ngo Dinh Diem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		His most trusted official was his brother Ngô Đình Nhu, leader of the primary pro-Diệm political party.
		His brother's wife Madame Nhu was South Vietnam's First Lady and she led the way in Diệm's programs to reform Saigon society according to his own Catholic values.
		In their defense, Diệm and Nhu claimed that the Communists had infiltrated the Buddhist groups, and that their crackdown was in accordance with the agreed-upon anti-Communist policy.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/Ngo-Dinh-Diem.htm (1336 words)

	History Channel - Speeches - Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, sister-in-law of President Diem: On the assassination of Diem and her ...
		On November 2, 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his closest adviser, his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, were killed in a U.S.-instigated military coup.
		Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu served as first lady for her bachelor brother-in-law and earned the nickname "Dragon Lady" for her callousness toward the Buddhists.
		Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu was in the United States at the time on a speaking tour, and she condemned the U.S. government for its rumored role in the coup.
	www.historyonline.com /speeches/archive/speech_488.html (407 words)

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