Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomats turned Can over to Big Minh's junta, on the understanding that he would be granted something more than the summary judgment meted out to Diem and Nhu, whose bullet-riddled corpses reportedly lie buried in the courtyard of Saigon's Joint
Spoils for Generals. For all his efforts, Khanh has as yet made no great impression on the mass of the population, and has yet to prove the charge he invoked to justify his coup-a purported "neutralist plot" within the former junta. It is far from certain that all the military are behind him. But he has rewarded his chief collaborators hand somely. Major General Tran Thien Khiem, whose III Corps troops arrested former Junta Boss General Du ong Van ("Big") Minh, got the No. 2 military job as Defense Minister and commander in chief. But among the ranks...
...Thursday, armored cars, a dozen M24 light tanks, and truckloads of troops in battle gear moved cautiously into position. Paratroopers and marines quietly surrounded the houses occupied by South Viet Nam's Chief of State, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, and four other top members of his ruling junta. With no opposition from the police guards on duty at each house, squads of soldiers efficiently swooped on the sleeping generals, knocked politely on their doors, and swiftly carried them off without firing a shot in anger...
...sole aim, he insisted, was to forestall a takeover by "neutralist" agents who, said he, had been "blatantly" slipped into South Viet Nam for the purpose by France's Charles de Gaulle. Khanh charged, moreover, that the four generals arrested with Minh included a clique within the junta that was "soft on neutralism." Who the guilty men were Khanh did not say. But to support his charges, he pointed to the recent return to Saigon of two South Vietnamese generals after years of exile in France, argued that they had been sent by De Gaulle and sheltered...
...Khanh, he portrayed himself incensed by De Gaulle's meddling in Viet Nam, pleaded with the junta last week to sever diplomatic relations with France. When he was turned down, Khanh at once won pledges of support from several key officers who shared his views, notably General Tran Thien Khiem, commanding the 3rd Corps troops around Saigon. Four of Khiem's battalions had been readied for a strike against the Viet Cong, were used instead against Minh & Co. Nine hours after Minh had refused Khanh's request to break with France, he was under arrest...