Word: gia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military Young Turks, who overthrew the ineffectual High National Council, had been "seriously insulted" by Taylor after he had demanded that coup-minded officers cease interfering with the civilian government. The officers got no apology. But at week's end, under the whirling fans and gilded cornices of Gia Long Palace, Huong and Khanh signed what was advertised as a "solution...
...week's end Khanh managed to put together a "government of national unity." His Cabinet was a mixed bag of politicians, bureaucrats and soldiers. He gave Big Minh his old title back as "Chief of State," and invited him to move into Gia Long Palace, once occupied by Diem. Minh, still popular with both the masses and the U.S. embassy, had already agreed to front for Khanh as "supreme military adviser." But Khanh, who plans to pull the strings, named himself Premier...
...smoke lifted quickly from the broad avenues surrounding Saigon's Gia Long palace. In the bright sunlight, the pattern of violence came clear-raw shell holes, the black tongue-traces of flamethrowers, and the fine detail of the coup that overthrew and killed President Ngo Dinh Diem...
...Bottle of Whisky. Diem's disaster struck on All Saints' Day. For the taciturn little President, the day had begun with normal business in the sprawling, cream-colored Gia Long palace; one visitor was Admiral Harry Felt, commander of U.S. forces in the Far East, who had arrived in Saigon for a "routine visit" and planned to leave for Hong Kong later in the morning. With Felt, and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Diem chatted easily, showing no signs of concern...
Musical Interludes. With the coming of dark, a grey drizzle began to fall over the city, and the coup leaders moved in toward the most important target of all-the big Gia Long palace, sheltering Diem, his brother Nhu, and aides. Periodically, Diem's own voice blared out from loudspeakers in the palace grounds, exhorting loyal troops to keep up the fight. "We shall not give in," he cried, his messages interspersed with patches of martial music. Then an eerie silence fell over the huge estate with its seven-foot high fences topped by barbed wire. The rebels were...