Word: aug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...core of the dispute is an Aug. 24 cable sent to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, newly arrived in Saigon, just after repressive measures had been taken against Vietnamese Buddhists by the government of Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem. The cable seemed to suggest alternative courses of action the U.S. might pursue to protect its costly stake in the war effort, taking into account the threat of a massive Buddhist uprising against Diem. Lodge was asked for his comments. Importantly, several of the courses of action included the possibility of a U.S.-backed coup to depose President Diem; more importantly...
...author of the Aug. 24 cable? Roger Hilsman, of course...
After labyrinthine negotiations, the quintet arrived in the busy steel town of Monterrey Aug. 21 for a television concert. Then they flew to Mexico City...
Epps also organized the Boston delegation for the Aug. 28 Washington march...
...beauty queen flap was low on the list of last-minute labor pains attending the long-awaited birth of Malaysia. At the insistence of Indonesia's belligerent President Sukarno, who bitterly opposes the federation, Malaysia's independence had been postponed two weeks beyond the original Aug. 31 starting date, while a United Nations team investigated whether or not North Borneo and Sarawak really wanted to join. Hoping to influence opinion against federation, Sukarno began moving paratroopers into Indonesian Borneo along his 900-mile-long border with the two territories. Some Indonesian guerrillas even sneaked through the jungles into...