Word: coups
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Endless Circle. No sooner had Khanh returned to Saigon than he was faced with another threatened coup against his increasingly ineffectual regime. The latest challenge came from the disaffected band of younger officers, including Air Force Commander Nguyen Cao Ky, who only two weeks earlier had saved Khanh from the third military rebellion since President Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination last November. They gave Khanh until Oct. 25 to purge six generals - including one member of Khanh's ruling triumvirate -whom they accused of seeking compromise with the Communists and neutralism for South Viet...
Last week the Middle East heard details of the latest attempted coup to come off the Iraqi assembly line. It was scheduled for noon last Sept. 4 as Aref and most of his Cabinet boarded a Viscount turboprop en route to the Arab summit at Alexandria. The Viscount was to be escorted by a squadron of six MIG fighters of the Iraqi air force-and all six pilots were members of a Baathist cell, who had agreed to blast the presidential plane to bits as it took...
...city, seize the radio station and the government buildings. They would be supported by 10,000 Baathist cadres from all over Iraq, who had been quietly assembling in Baghdad. Everything was complete, down to recordings of Baathist anthems to be played over Radio Iraq on the day of the coup...
...Rescue. The revolt was short lived, and what put Phat in the fire was simply bad organization. His was one of two groups that had been plotting a coup and, of the pair, the least likely to succeed. Composed largely of Roman Catholic "outs," Phat's men were strong in their denunciation of Khanh as a "traitor" but weak on rallying tactical military support. Phat's only triumph lay in convincing Major General Duong Van Due to send elements of his Mekong Delta-based IV Corps north to Saigon. Ironically, Due thought he was joining another coup-that...
...threaten the rebels. Meanwhile, a pair of C-47s (lent to him by the U.S. Air Force) whipped down to Cap St. Jacques, where two companies of South Vietnamese marines loyal to Khanh were waiting. Several battalions of loyal army troops were also ferried into Saigon, and the coup quickly dissolved...