Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the help of the conservative General Zionists, B-G carried his vote 57 to 45. But the two leftist parties in his coalition voted against the motion. Lacking constitutional power to sack members of his own Cabinet, but denouncing what he called a "breach of faith" by the four leftist ministers, B-G stormed out of a Cabinet session roaring: "This is the last time I sit with them." At week's end he resigned, as he had six times before in the past eleven years. By law, ministers are then supposed to stay on as a caretaker...
...shirts and black berets marched through the puddled streets of Vientiane in the first "antivice" drive in Laotian history. They carried "good'' banners, hailing the three Rs of "Revolution, Roads and Rice,'' and "bad'' banners condemning equally Communism, opium, prostitution, gambling and liquor. General Ouane Rattinkoun, 34, the Laotian chief of staff, watched approvingly as the bad banners were heaped in a pile, doused with gasoline and set afire. General Ouane. who has a Buddhist horror of going to extremes, says, "There is no question of making physical war on the opium growers." Instead...
...anti-Communist Turkey to Communist Viet Nam, jovial President Sukarno flew back to his stricken land. Anticipating his arrival, army commanders converged on the capital, took rooms in the rambling red brick Hotel des Indes, discussed the situation far into the night. Strongly supporting their chief of staff, Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, 40, the officers still seem eager to seek a workable partnership with Sukarno. Urging a return to the President's 1945 constitution and a further dose of "guided" democracy, they demanded a more streamlined administration-under army control-to get the economy back on its feet...
Sukarno appeared totally unconcerned at a reception in his splendid white palace on the evening of his arrival. Sitting on a brocaded sofa, he chatted with politicians and children, completely ignored General Nasution and his restive colonels across the room...
...days later able General Nasution summoned a rare press conference, admitted that he had not yet been able to speak to the President, but insisted confidently that in the next Cabinet "the army will have more control over security and economic affairs." At week's end, President Sukarno visibly reasserted his power by decreeing the end of the Constituent Assembly and seizing dictatorial powers...