Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gang, look what it is! That's right, it's St. Simparootieville's Day! That merry day, only once a year, on which we remember St. Simparootieville's heroic deeds in behalf of his war-tour fatherland, Angria. What would the good people of Angria have done in 1537 with all those cheese sandwiches if it hadn't been for the quick thinking of St. Simparootieville...
Paul Newman is the man who must destroy what we might call BANANA (Bigoted Alien Nemesis Against Nobel Awards). This is a Fascist group intent on forcing a former comrade (now an American Nobel Prize winner) to refuse the award, denounce the United States, and defect to the Fatherland, thus giving the U.S. a bad name and the Fatherland a pile of top-secret scientific information. The scientist refuses and is subsequently kidnaped. An imposter is then substituted and the whole plan is about to succeed when in steps Newman...
...Saigon Radio, which abruptly ceased broadcasting at the start of the fighting, returned to the air. "Soldiers in the army, security service, civil defense force, and people's force," blared the radio. "The Ngo Dinh Diem government, abusing power, has thought only of personal ambition and slighted the fatherland's interests . . . The army has swung into action. The task of you all is to unite . . . The revolution will certainly be successful...
...that he went to a dinner for Admiral Felt the night before the coup, calmly saw Felt off at the airport shortly before the shooting started. "We have no political ambitions," declared the generals' communiqué. "We act not for fame or benefit, but to save our beloved fatherland...
...shame for many Americans." The Diem regime, she claimed, had been nearing victory against the Red guerrillas, and now some people were trying to "rob the fruits of victory from the victors with the help of their little friends, whom we all consider as traitors to their fatherland." Would Mme. Nhu seek asylum in the U.S.? "Never!" she cried, trembling with anger. "I cannot stay in a country whose government stabbed me in the back...