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Hinh went around Saigon's cafes boasting that he could bring off a coup d'etat any time. "Diem doesn't know the people, and the people don't like him," Hinh said. "He has two good qualities. He's honest and pure. So is my daughter...
...Gentlemen. Nobody thought there was anything extraordinary about this sham ritual, for it was an exact copy of the method by which France was ruled. Just as Louis XV had a State Bedroom in which to lie down officially, so had he "Parlements" and a "Conseil d'Etat"-Bourbon equivalents of the modern dictator's "Soviets"-to lay down officially the laws which he created...
Bell first began to suspect that Nasser was the man to watch shortly after the coup d'etat of July 23, 1952. Says Bell: "We started hearing the phrase El Bekbashi constantly around army headquarters. El Bekbashi wanted this done . . . has ordered . . . Bekbashi means lieutenant colonel in Arabic. El Bekbashi was obviously a big man, but we didn't know who he was. It was not until late summer that we learned that El Bekbashi was Nasser...
...strong but unsuccessful coup d'etat attempt again aroused the Young Republican Club as over a third of the members rose against the organization's proposed slate of new officers at the HYRC's election in Phillips Brooks House last night...
...down Syngman Rhee by declaring U.N. martial law, placing Rhee in "protective custody" or engineering a coup d'etat to bring to power a Korean who would cooperate with...