Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must curb them. That is the first start of a democracy." Next day, addressing a crowd of 10,000, including 2,000 soldiers, at the Dieu Da Pagoda, the fiery-eyed monk argued that "what we want is a democratic structure. We are making a revolution, not a coup...
...Their only visible act last week was the dismissal of the head of the national police, an appointee of ousted Buddhist I Corps Commander Nguyen Chanh Thi, who was replaced by one of Ky's loyal Air Force colonels. The Directory's caution was probably well-advised. Coup rumors were even thicker than usual, and Viet Nam's Catholics showed signs that they may pick up the troublemaking where the Buddhists left...
...trial of alleged participants in the abortive Communist coup, several witnesses last week implicated Sukarno as party to the plot, in which one aim was to kill off all the military brass. The judge ordered passages concerning Sukarno suppressed, knowing full well that they would seem more credible when they leaked out. The government next month will bring to trial ex-Foreign Minister Subandrio, whose evidence, say examining army officers, will openly link Sukarno to the Communist conspiracy. As part of a campaign to discredit Sukarno further in Indonesian eyes, an Army newspaper ran sections from his latest autobiography, which...
...Republican leader was shot down by an assassin. But Nasser's biggest trouble occurred right at home, and it was caused by the army, which is normally considered the strongest supporter of his regime. The government announced the arrest of 20 top officers on charges of plotting a coup. The word in Cairo was variously that the officers were at loggerheads with Nasser about his Yemen policy or had been caught in smuggling and corruption, which Nasser finds even more embarrassing than a coup attempt...
Died. Field Marshal Abdul Salam Aref, 47, President of Iraq, a wily plotter who was General Abdul Karim Kassem's right-hand man in the 1958 army coup in which King Feisal was murdered, later that year fell from favor and was imprisoned by Kassem for pro-Nasser leanings, but was released in January 1963 and within a month grabbed power in a bloody revolt (Kassem and his chief aides were machine-gunned), after which Aref nimbly walked the tightrope of Middle East politics, surviving eight attempts on his own life; in the crash of his Russian-built helicopter...