Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uprising was led by a Vietnamese soldier well known to the American military, a man of whom one U.S. general had said: "I would certainly like to have him in the U.S. Army." He is Lieut. General Duong Van Minh, 47, known as "Big" Minh, a blunt, burly, French-trained veteran. Obviously he had been able to rally, at least for the moment, the deeply divided Vietnamese army. This week he was in charge, along with a military junta of fellow officers-in charge of the army, of the war, and to a large extent of the heavy U.S. stake...
...generals, seven colonels and a major who have what for Americans are some of the most unpronounceable names on earth-such names as Brig. General Pham Xuan Chieu, Brig. General Nguyen Giac Ngo, and Brig. General Tran Tu Oai. At the top of the list was Big Minh and Lieut. General Tran Van Don. Like Minh, Don has been close to the Americans-so close that he went to a dinner for Admiral Felt the night before the coup, calmly saw Felt off at the airport shortly before the shooting started. "We have no political ambitions," declared the generals...
Caged Tiger. Washington had prodded Park hard to set a democratic example. Not everything was simon-pure. After one opposition candidate, retired Lieut. General Song Yo ("Tiger") Chan, attacked Park in a speech, the government suddenly charged Song with having executed two subordinates during the Korean war and put him in Seoul's Sodaemun prison, from where he continued to campaign with tape-recorded speeches...
...Second Night. This one was really tough, and for a while it looked like it might turn into the real thing. The U.S. commander, 1st Lieut. Raymond Fields, ordered his men not to get out of their trucks, even to relieve their bladders and bowels; they performed those functions right where they were. A U.S. aerial reconnaissance flight circled overhead, and a Russian jet buzzed about it. As the blockade slipped into a second night, the Russians brought up light and heavy antiaircraft weapons. At length the men started to get out and move about in groups...
Caught in a Jam. At 3 a.m. the morning that Goulart was to present his request for a state of siege to Congress, a Goulart friend, Brigadier General Alfredo Pinheiro, accompanied by Lieut. Colonel Abelardo Mafra, appeared at the Vila Militar base in suburban...