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An assiliant fires shots at President Diem as he arrives on foot for the Ban Me Thuot Economic Fair inauguration. The shot misses Diem but seriously injures the secretary of Agrarian Reform.
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Diem comes to an agreement with the French Ambassador for the withdrawl of the French Air Force and Navy training missions upon the completion of the courses they have now.
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DIscussions take place in Washington about the need to increase the number of MAAG personnel resulting from the withdrawl of France's Military training missions.
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Diem directs the French to withdraw their advisors as soon as possible,
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Diem arrives in Honolulu, to begin his 21-day tour of the USA.
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President Eisenhower and Diem meet in Washington
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Vietnam government requests for MAAG advisors to fill in where the French Air Force and Navy advisors were. 44 military personell shift to the Embassy's role, MAAG and TERM increase from 692 to 736.
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Le Duan, Secretary General of the Communist Party in North Vietnam wrote a report advocating for North Vietnam to stop supporting the Viet Cong in the South while they pushed for a socialist society in the North.
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TERM ships out more than $36,000,000 worth of MDPA equipment from Viet Nam. This is more than had been shiped since prior to them.
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U.S. Army officers are injured in a dynamite inncident. While a number of enlisted Army personel are injured because their bus was dynamited.
