Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspiration, the government-controlled Times of Viet Nam bannered the headline, CIA FINANCING PLANNED COUP D'ETAT, over a story accusing U.S. agents of spending up to $24 million in bribes to key military men, labor leaders and civil servants to overthrow the Diem government-or at least to depose Nhu and his lady. The U.S. State Department scornfully dismissed the charges as "something out of Ian Fleming...
Syndicated horoscopes, many of them from abroad, are popular features in many South Vietnamese newspapers, but last week the government banned them, presumably on the theory that some star-minded dissident might be moved to try a coup on an astrologically auspicious day. In South Viet Nam everybody was indeed on the move, but where they were moving was no clearer than the zodiac. The U.S. was increasingly unhappy with President Ngo Dinh Diem (Capricorn), and after what the U.S. officially called his "brutal" crackdown on the Buddhists, Washington obviously could not string along with him as if nothing...
...military success against the Viet Cong. But Don may merely be a figurehead. Hostile to the government, he was pulled out of his field command last December and kicked upstairs to a staff job, where he would have no troops at his disposal in case the thought of a coup ever crossed his mind...
Presumably to show he is not a total tyrant, Ne Win released three former Cabinet ministers (but not ex-Premier U Nu) from house arrest. Unless the army stages a coup, Ne Win may muddle along indefinitely. "It's not the Burmese way to man the barricades," explained a Rangoon educator. "Given our plentiful food supplies and the passivity of the people, it's possible for someone to misrule Burma for perhaps a decade before incurring true wrath...
...growing MacArthur legend. And now here was the old soldier already halfway through the job. Three months later, with an aide's alacrity and a friend's care, Whitney slipped the manuscript into a box and carried it to LIFE Magazine. Last week, in the publishing coup of the year, LIFE purchased all rights - publishing, movie and television - to the memoirs of Douglas Mac Arthur...