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...Military Academy at Dalat, a period that to this day continues to provide him with a reservoir of support among many middle-grade officers who look up to him as their teacher. His entree into politics came in December, 1962, when Diem assigned him to the command of the 5th, or Anti-Coup, Division, strategically positioned just north of Saigon. Thieu was put there because Diem did not trust the previous commander, Nguyen Due Thang, now Thieu's Minister for Revolutionary Development and one of the ablest Vietnamese officials around...
Diem's trust in Thieu was misplaced. Only eleven months later, the young colonel led one of the 5th Division's regiments in the coup against Diem. In the wake of Diem's overthrow, Thieu won his general's stars and the secretary-generalship of the junta that took over...
...warmer and sunnier climate, there is ancient Kiev, 490 miles southwest of Moscow, on the Dnieper River. The Ukrainian capital, known as the "Mother of Cities," dates back to the 5th century. It was Christianized by Vladimir I in the 10th century; the main shopping area is still called Street of the Cross. Today a garden city with many parks and chestnut trees, Kiev draws tourists to the gold-domed St. Sophia Cathedral, one of the great masterpieces of Russian architecture, and to the nearby ravine of Babi Yar, the infamous spot commemorated in Evtushenko's poem, where some...
...statement that "Greece today has not retained much of its ancient legacy of moderation and temperance" reveals ignorance. Scholars have long taken pains to show the absurdity of this view of 5th century Athens. "The most civilized society that has ever existed," wrote "Nothing in Excess" into its marble because it needed the reminder. It was prone to extremes because it cared. Like today's Greeks, 5th century Athenians were intelligent, thoughtful and energetic, so they were concerned, argumentative and politically active. Like George III, TIME has been viewing these people as a rabble, a mob; their political demonstrations...
President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street on the first Sunday of the month, March 5th, from 4 to 6 p.m., and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties, and others holding Corporation appointments and their wives r husbands...