Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam remains one of the world's most difficult targets. He moves constantly, uses doubles, runs his food through chemical analyzers, kills close associates and even his in-laws to keep others off guard, and employs a ruthlessly loyal security force that has quashed multiple coup attempts since 1991. Richard Haass, who directed Middle Eastern affairs at the National Security Council during the Gulf War, says, "I have yet to see anything remotely persuasive about how you could take out Saddam. A wish is not a policy." One suggestion: million-dollar rewards have helped the U.S. catch foreign terrorists...
Swinging to the other side of the globe, Hersh alleges that J.F.K. knew that South Vietnam's President, Ngo Dinh Diem, and his brother would be assassinated as a consequence of the Washington-approved coup that toppled Diem in 1963. Hersh's smoking gun is the fact that Kennedy summoned former Air Force General Edward G. Lansdale, an ex-CIA operative who had been involved in the U.S. assassination plots against Castro, and asked if he would go to Saigon and help "get rid" of Diem. Lansdale says he turned down the President's invitation. Was Kennedy making a thinly...
Hersh's account of Kennedy's policies in Vietnam is perhaps the flimsiest part of this book. Much of what he says is well known: that Kennedy was deeply complicit in the 1963 coup that toppled Ngo Dinh Diem. But Hersh insists that Kennedy not only approved the coup but also knew about and at least acquiesced in plans to murder Diem and his brother. His evidence for this is almost nonexistent: a cryptic, secondhand account of a conversation between Kennedy and CIA agent Edward Lansdale, a vague thirdhand account of a secret visit to Diem...
...widens. Last week's MNF x 2 coup left L.I. Slim with a six-game lead on Kansas City--and an abiding faith in da Bears. So he likes Wannstedt at home, and getting three, against the tattered 'Skins. He's also high on the Buccaneers reversing their three-game slide, covering in the process. And as for the Pack, ten is just too much to give in chilly Lambeau. Take the Lions...
...that a visit to the colonial capital of Williamsburg Va. late Monday ? during which every TV correspondent can allude to the Jefferson-quoting Chinese President "seeing where democracy began" ? and the stage is set for the biggest PR coup since Deng Xiaoping donned a ten-gallon hat back...