Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...departure. Harvard-educated Acting Premier Nguyen Xuan Oanh (known as Jack Owen) had only been going through the motions of governing, in fact wielded no real authority. The "triumvirate" of Khanh, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh and Defense Minister General Tran Thien Khiem, which supposedly replaced Khanh's junta, was not really working. The students were still restive, and the Buddhists were demanding-successfully, as it turned out-that all of their partisans jailed during the demonstrations be freed...
Named "The National Provisional Steering Committee," the trio was charged with calling a national convention that would be "entrusted with the task of electing a provisional leader for the nation." As for the junta, it announced modestly: "The armed forces will return to their purely military mission of protecting the nation and fighting Communism, neutralism, colonialism and all forms of dictatorship and betrayal...
...plot in advance. A week before the coup took place, he began to grow his black goatee. Apparently he did not like what he saw ahead, and a beard was his enigmatic symbol of future plans. After three months of watching the bickering and lethargy of the Big Minh junta, Khanh arrived in the capital to attend an officers' meeting, quietly rallied some fellow officers, including the commander of troops surrounding Saigon, and on the night of Jan. 30 pulled off his own coup, a silent one that caught his rivals in their pajamas. While persuading Big Minh...
...Pringle '63 (swimming); Mark H. Mullin '62 (track and cross country): Charles D. Ravenel '61 (football and baseball) and Perry T. Boyden '61 (crew); Langley C. Keyes '60 (soccer and lacrosse); Robert R. Foster '59 (football and wrestling) and R. Dyke Benjamin '59 (cross country and track); Dale W. Junta '58 (tennis); John A. Simourian '57 (football and baseball); James P. Jorgenson '56 (swimming); Robert Rittenburg '55 (track); T. Jefferson Coolidge '54 (football and hockey...
...malnutrition, a common fate where even the biggest daily is hard put to it to muster 35,000 readers, run the risk of offending the government. The late President Diem controlled the press with a heavy hand. And, after a temporary lull, so did the junta government that overthrew him. Last week Major General Nguyen Khanh, who overthrew Diem's over-throwers last January, demonstrated that he was no different from any of his predecessors. In two successive days he ordered seven Saigon dailies out of print...