Word: diem
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...Diem, who was murdered a year ago supposedly to clear the way for reform, but had brought down the regime of Soldier-Premier Nguyen Khanh as well...
...resign from the army. This Minh refused to do at the last moment, so the High Council appointed in his place its own chairman, a fragile elder statesman, Phan Khac Suu, 63, who spent eight years in prison for his opposition first to the French and later to Diem. At least theoretically, Suu was empowered to pick a civilian Premier to replace Khanh, reportedly asked Saigon Mayor Tran Van Huong, 61, a sometime porter, clerk-typist and school official, who says: "I was born under an unlucky star...
They demanded the removal from Saigon's ruling triumvirate of Lieut. General Tran Thien Khiem, long a friend of Khanh and the man who planned and executed both the coup against Ngo Dinh Diem last November and Khanh's coup against General Duong Van ("Big") Minh in January. With a shrug, Khanh accepted the demands and promptly announced that Khiem would depart immediately for Paris and a protracted tour of countries aiding South Viet Nam in its war against the Viet Cong. Khanh hoped this further accommodation might still the noisy protests of his critics...
...Saigon than he was faced with another threatened coup against his increasingly ineffectual regime. The latest challenge came from the disaffected band of younger officers, including Air Force Commander Nguyen Cao Ky, who only two weeks earlier had saved Khanh from the third military rebellion since President Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination last November. They gave Khanh until Oct. 25 to purge six generals - including one member of Khanh's ruling triumvirate -whom they accused of seeking compromise with the Communists and neutralism for South Viet...
...third time since last November, when General Duong Van ("Big") Minh ousted President Ngo Dinh Diem, tanks and troops swept into Saigon with the intent of remaking a revolution. And indeed the rebels had a cause: Khanh had ad-libbed his role as leader of a war-torn nation for too long. His only ideological offerings were weary anti-Communism and vague nationalism. Meanwhile, the war went poorly, and in defeat Buddhists and Catholics found their historical hatreds coming to a boil. When Khanh dismissed Roman Catholic Interior Minister Lam Van Phat, a dour, desiccated brigadier general who felt...