Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took over virtually absolute power - at least in theory. He promulgated a new constitution abolishing his previous post of Premier as well as that of figurehead Chief of State, which had been occupied by Khanh's predecessor. General Big Minh, the man who had fronted the original coup against Ngo Dinh Diem's regime. To avoid embarrassing comparisons. Khanh ordered his new title rendered in Vietnamese as Chu Tich (Chairman) rather than Tonf> Thont> (President), the title used by Diem...
...Southern Congressmen because 1) he is a liberal, and 2) he helped set up a Kennedy-ordered commission to investigate racial discrimination in the armed forces, later took part in implementing its anti-discrimination proposals. Those same Southerners did not want Yarmolinsky messing around with the Poverty Corps. The coup de gráce was delivered, fittingly, by Georgia's Democratic Representative Phil Landrum, a recent convert to Johnsonism, and the bill's floor manager. Landrum told the House: "Mr. Yarmolinsky will have absolutely nothing to do with the program," added: "I have been told on the highest...
...State of Urgency." Ever since Khanh himself seized power in a coup last January, rumors of another coup have swirled about him. He has tried in vain to get the country's minuscule, myriad "political parties" (more than 60 at last count) to come up with a program, and to pacify discontented generals and colonels. His nominal chief of state. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, has been unhappy and uncooperative. Latest dissident is one of Khanh's three Vice Premiers, Nguyen Ton Hoan. leader of the nationalist Dai Viet party, who recently complained of "too much interference from...
...streak of success came none too soon for Egypt's ruler, who has poured vast quantities of men and money behind the republican regime that deposed the Imam in a palace coup two years ago. Since then, it has been touch and go for the 30,000 to 40,000 Egyptian soldiers who managed to cling to the towns and a few main roads. The royalist tribes, led by Imam Badr and princes of the royal family, controlled the mountains of the center and north...
Ambitious & Corrupt. The thought of Rojas in power again is chilling to many Colombians. A tough and ambitious military man, he led a successful coup in 1953, soon became the model of the ruthless Latin American strongman-ruling by decree, censoring all newspapers, quashing political opposition. He lavished millions on the army, acquired at least nine ranches and generally proved so corrupt that a military-civilian coup sent him packing into exile in Spain in 1957. A year later when Rojas returned the government stripped him of his decorations and pensions, and barred him from voting or seeking office. Otherwise...