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...marshal who had ruled since 1967 but was partially paralyzed by a stroke last August. A military triumvirate took over the government, imperiously brushing aside the civilian Vice President, who should have succeeded Costa e Silva under the constitution. Early this month the brass reached into the ranks of four-star generals to choose Médici, the taciturn commander of Brazil's Third Army, as the new "candidate...
Huong did, however, bring in new men for the main posts. Senator Tran Chanh Tranh, a diplomat and political independent who is not close to either Thieu or Ky, became Foreign Minister. Four-star General Tran Thien Khiem, an ally of President Thieu and presently Ambassador to Taiwan, was named Interior Minister. Dr. Phan Quang Dan, a vice-presidential candidate who ran against the Thieu-Ky military ticket in the September elections, got the ministry dealing with defectors. Huong kept for himself the Rural Development Ministry, responsible for pacification. "The life and death of this country depend on this government...
General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower, 77, has rarely been surrounded by so much rank. At a West Point Society dinner in Manhattan, Ike's five stars were flanked by a platoon of active and retired four-star generals, including SHAPE Commander Lyman Lemnitzer, Mark Clark, Alfred Gruen-ther, Lauris Norstad, Jacob Devers, Lucius Clay and Anthony McAuliffe. For that glittering crew, the society decided that no citations, no medals could come close to being adequate. "What award could we possibly give these men?" asked a spokesman plaintively...
Married. Mark W. Clark, 71, retired four-star general who orchestrated the Italian campaigns in World War II, later signed the Korean armistice as commander of U.N. forces, from 1954 to 1965 was president of South Carolina's The Citadel military college; and Mary Millard Applegate, 51, longtime family friend; both for the second time (his wife and her husband died last year); in Charleston...
Died. William M. Fechteler, 71, four-star admiral, an old-fashioned "black-shoe" (in Navy talk, a pure sailor as opposed to a brown-shoe, or flyer) who learned his profession aboard destroyers and battleships, in World War II led amphibious assaults on New Guinea and the Philippines, in 1951 was named Chief of Naval Operations during the Korean War buildup, then took over as Commander in Chief of Allied Forces in Southern Europe until his retirement in 1956; of a heart attack; in Bethesda...