Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even with that fact taken into consideration, there remained considerable doubt that the U.S.-encouraged coup would actually achieve what it was intended to. One major charge against the Diem regime was that it was not democratic enough to win and hold the support of the Vietnamese populace. There is certainly no assurance that a military junta will be any more democratic. Indeed, in some broader areas of policy, the U.S. appears to have painted itself into a corner. Recently the U.S., in protesting coups in such Latin American countries as Peru, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, has said that...
...months "coup" had been the loudest whisper heard in South Viet Nam. Coup is what correspondents and lesser U.S. officials talked in the bar at the Hotel Caravelle. Coup is what Diem and his guards feared in the palace. Coup is what the generals finally plotted in their headquarters...
...that, before risking an uprising, the military wanted assurances of U.S. support. Officially the U.S. denied all involvements, but it was perfectly plain that the reduction of U.S. aid to Diem and Washington's public disapproval of his repressive measures against the Buddhists set the scene for the coup (see THE NATION). As the news from Saigon unfolded, it was Diem's sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, who provided a bitter chorus from Los Angeles, where she was winding up her U.S. tour. Said she: "There can be no coup without American incitement or backing." This...
There had been some inklings of a coup, including rumors that generals had begun moving troops loyal to Diem away from the capital. New York Times Correspondent David Halberstam and another correspondent received a slip of paper the night before with the message: "Please buy me one bottle of whisky at the PX." It was a prearranged signal meaning that a coup might be imminent. While Saigon was still at lunch, thousands of men in combat garb were gathering just outside the city, buckling on equipment, checking their weapons, listening to last-minute instructions for the violent overthrow...
...soldiers moved. Throwing roadblocks across the avenues leading from the city to Saigon Airport, army units quickly won over units of Ngo Dinh Nhu's crack "special forces" near the airfield, giving a free hand to air force pilots who were planning to support the coup d'état with rocket-equipped dive bombers...