Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biggest surprise was the coup in Viet Nam, the second in three months. De Gaulle had a solution for the trouble there, too: neutrality. "In the era in which we live," said he, neutralization seems to be "the only situation compatible with the peaceful life and progress of the populations." Not, however, all of the populations. In plotting to set up a neutral regime in Saigon, complained one Vietnamese official, the French "are sabotaging us, killing us, drowning us in difficulties...
Critical Decision. The spot the U.S. has been watching most closely, though, is South Viet Nam-and there was some question whether Washington has been seeing straight. Last September Defense Secretary McNamara returned from Saigon and said that the war was slowly being won. After November's coup, Washington took a fresh look, concluded that the war effort would surely have collapsed if the junta had not taken over...
After the recent coup in Zanzibar, TIME's East Africa Correspondent Bill Smith tried in vain to get to the scene by plane, finally chartered a dhow to take him the 23 miles from Tanganyika to the embattled island. On arrival, Smith had barely begun to interview a U.S. official when Zanzibar police seized his notes and placed him and several other Western journalists under detention. The charges included sending "biased" stories-although Reporter Smith had not yet cabled a word. After almost 24 hours and some browbeating, he was released and placed aboard a British vessel...
...Honduras is run by a junta that took over in a barracks-room coup last October. The U.S. severed relations and cut off aid money, then restored it all after a promise of free elections...
Months, Even Years. Mutinous troops from the Colito barracks outside Dar quickly grabbed key points in the city, and as rioters raged through the streets, Nyerere went into hiding. Fearing a coup, he dispersed his Cabinet to prevent arrest, sent Defense and External Affairs Minister Oscar Kambona, a hard-working leftist, to negotiate with the mutineers. Kambona got the troops back to their barracks only by sending the British officers and men out of the country and promising to look into the pay question. But it was a victory for anarchy, and no one was more aware of that fact...