Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Added to these unhappy statistics is a growing political instability. The real significance of the January 30 coup is not that it dashed the hopes nurtured by the overthrow of Diem--these hopes had already disappeared--but that it points the way to more coups and more unrest. It would be ridiculous to place any great hopes in General Kanh as a Vietnamese messiah, when the success of any government appears to rest on whose troops are in Saigon at a given moment...
Bunker claimed that civil rights issues should properly be handled by the states. He said that the legislation favored by Kennedy tended to centralize power is the federal government and make it potentially easier for the internal Communist conspiracy to effect a coup d'etat and control the political life of the United States from Washington...
...murdered ex-leaders, Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, and once the tough overlord of central Viet Nam. While Can ruled, the Viet Cong moved warily in the region, but he made lots of other enemies as well. Fleeing for his life after the anti-Diem coup, Can sought asylum in the U.S. consulate...
...Have you any suggestions about how we can do a better job for Viet Nam?" The politician was none other than South Viet Nam's strongman of the hour, Major General Nguyen Khanh, 36. Almost desperately, he was striving for the support necessary to safeguard his successful military coup...
Spoils for Generals. For all his efforts, Khanh has as yet made no great impression on the mass of the population, and has yet to prove the charge he invoked to justify his coup-a purported "neutralist plot" within the former junta. It is far from certain that all the military are behind him. But he has rewarded his chief collaborators hand somely. Major General Tran Thien Khiem, whose III Corps troops arrested former Junta Boss General Du ong Van ("Big") Minh, got the No. 2 military job as Defense Minister and commander in chief. But among the ranks...