Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although many pundits feared that Johnson's greatest weakness would be in foreign affairs, he has dealt competently with crises in Panama, Cyprus and Viet Nam. He fielded a coup in Brazil with certainty, dealt evenhandedly with such sticky people and places as Charles de Gaulle, Nikita Khrushchev, Berlin and Communist China...
After last November's coup, in which Diem and Nhu were murdered,* Can sought asylum in the U.S. consulate at Hué, but was turned over to the military junta. Vietnamese newspapers splashed lurid accounts and dubious photographs alleging that Can ran a private dungeon and torture camp on his thousand-acre estate near...
...fervent anti-Communist and pillar of the local Rotary Club who won 1960's Battle of Vientiane; he thus blocked the neutralists and pro-Communist Pathet Lao, only to have his victory stalemated by the 1962 Geneva agreement that established Laos's neutralist regime. The coup leaders were a pair of strange birds, even for the wild aviary of Southeast Asia: Kouprasith is a nervous strongman with a pet baby elephant, an incipient ulcer and a reliance on sedatives; Siho plays the dandy, wears three gold rings and affects an ivory-handled pistol to go with his favorite...
...everybody else with scented water to wash away bad luck and celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Serpent, symbolizing wisdom and chaos. Most celebrants used buckets; some favored water pistols. Before long, more serious weapons were in evidence, and Laos was in the midst of a military coup seeking to overthrow the shaky coalition government. Wisdom? That remained to be seen. Chaos? Plenty...
Once again French paratroopers came to Léon Mba's rescue. Steel-helmeted paras sent in quickly by Charles de Gaulle had saved the Gabonese President's skin only two months ago, when his 400-man army pulled a predawn coup and replaced him briefly with Op position Leader Jean-Hilaire Aubame (TIME, Feb. 28). In putting down that rising, the French troopers killed 27 Gabonese soldiers, then spirited Aubame off to an island just outside the port capital of Libreville, decided to stay on in the former French colony to keep an eye on things. Back...