Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 moving their heavy guns into place for the big assault...
...first acts of Minh & Co. were to declare martial law, with an 8 p.m. curfew and censorship of press messages abroad. Dispatches discussing the fate of Diem and Nhu were carefully cut, forcing correspondents-at least for a while-to use precisely the same ruse they had employed against Diem's martial law period last summer: smuggling their files out to the cable offices in Hong Kong and Bangkok via cooperative airline passengers...
...MARTIAL SOLAL: AT NEWPORT '63 (RCA Victor). Europe's leading jazzman turns out to be more than his two American sidemen can keep up with in this live festi val album. When they give up the chase and Solal flies free, his ideas are a match for his virtuosity and his imagination grows rich to the point of bursting...
...Cover) It is hard to imagine a figure less martial than West Germany's new Chancellor. Round of shape, soft in manner, sanguine in temperament, he is every one's rich uncle, the man who made West German prosperity grow out of the rubble. He is clearly not at home on the parade ground, nor amid the strategists' complicated maps and grim contingencies. Yet hardly had Ludwig Erhard settled into the Chancellor's chair and lit his inevitable Brazilian Schwarze Weisheit (black wisdom) when he was faced with major military problems involving not only Germany...
Taking over as one-man ruler was Colonel Osvaldo López, 42, the armed forces chief who masterminded the revolt. With the sureness of past experience-he had led another coup in 1956 -López cut off communication to the countryside, imposed martial law and canceled the Oct. 13 presidential election. Ex-President Villeda Morales and ex-Presidential Candidate Rodas Alvarado were packed aboard an air force C-47 and flown to exile in Costa Rica. The Honduran army then went about mopping up loyalist resistance. At week's end, just as the new regime was being...