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...assurance, given at a press conference two weeks ago, that U.S. aid would not be affected by Thieu's version of a one-man, one-vote election. The U.S. embassy also passed word among South Vietnamese generals last week that any attempt at a coup d'etat would bring an end to American support. That support, and South Viet Nam's need for it, was visibly demonstrated last week, when U.S. fighter-bombers launched heavy air attacks across the DMZ for five straight days...
...dinner interview with foreign correspondents, Thieu confidently discounted Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's threats of a coup d'etat against his government. Although Ky himself was now silent, he did dispatch an aide to Washington to urge that the Nixon Administration cut off economic and military aid to force postponement of the one-man presidential race. U.S. diplomats in Saigon settled into a quiet cynicism over the no-contest race...
there is one point that Mr. Papandreou has made else-where which deserves restatement in this light. That is, roughly, that the coup d'etat might have been averted in the first hours-resistance might have taken place-if they (the Papandreou government) had organized the people. That, in effect, the Resistance movement's efforts today are in lieu of the mobilization of the masses that should have begun before the coup...
...Benghazi meeting, he decided to form a new Union of Arab Republics composed of Egypt, Libya and Syria. The members will be pledged to joint defense and will also have the right to intervene in the affairs of the other states to prevent a coup d'etat. The three nations and their 42 million people are ultimately supposed to have one President, one flag, one military command and, of course, one enemy: Israel...
...colpo di stato, as Italians refer to a coup d'etat, had been scheduled for Dec. 8. That night nearly a thousand of his followers assembled near the Interior Ministry, nerve center of Italy's police and government communications network. They never received the go-ahead. Instead, Borghese was mysteriously warned that his ultra-rightist National Front had long since been infiltrated and the plot was known. Reluctantly Borghese agreed to cancel the coup. By way of consolation, he treated his commanders to a late spaghetti supper...