Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sept. 14: Thieu announces that Major General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"), leader of anti-Diem coup in 1963, will return from exile to become a presidential adviser. Minh is one of few South Vietnamese deemed acceptable to Hanoi and N.L.F...
CHICAGO should have been the coup de grace to the myth of objectivity, but unfortunately, instead of being liberated by their discovery, many journalists felt pushed in just the opposite direction...
Other clues pointed to the possibility that the impasse might at last be breaking up. One was the return to South Viet Nam, at the invitation of President Nguyen Van Thieu, of Major General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"). The leader of the 1963 coup that deposed Ngo Dinh Diem, he had spent nearly four years in exile. Hanoi, which apparently sees Big Minh as a possible bridge between the present Saigon regime and the Viet Cong guerrillas, has accordingly taken pains to treat him gently. A sharp reduction in fighting in the South also took place. U.S. battle deaths...
After the coup, Colonel Torrijos explained that a two-man provisional junta, composed of Colonels José M. Pinilla and Bolivar Urrutia, would govern the country only until a new electoral law could be drawn up and elections held for the presidency and National Assembly. Torrijos promised that Guard officers would not be allowed to run for office. Whoever comes to power in Panama must face the extremely sensitive task of negotiating a new treaty with the U.S. about the status of the 54-year-old canal and the possibility of building a new one. The political rallying...
Italy's state-run enterprises, which already dominate a sizable amount of the country's business, last week pulled a stunning coup. With a stealth that would have impressed Machiavelli, they gained virtual control of the biggest Italian private company, Montecatini-Edison, a widely diversified manufacturer of chemicals and many other basic products. The maneuver was accomplished through an unprecedented joint assault by the government's two largest industrial complexes, ENI and I.R.I., which between them have substantial interests in 275 firms and control all or most of Italy's steel, oil, shipbuilding, aviation and banking...