Word: minh
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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
Thus, only three months after the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Big Minh's regime was itself overturned in a bloodless coup that was so well planned and unexpected that most Saigon citizens first heard of it from a government broadcast 16 hours later. Arrested with Minh were Commander in Chief General Tran Van Don; General Le Van Kim, chief of the joint general staff; Interior Minister General Ton That Dinh; and National Police Chief General Mai Huu Xuan...
Beaten to the Draw. The new strongman, Lieut. General Nguyen Khanh, 36, is a goateed, poker-playing, guerrilla-fighting veteran. Like Big Minh, he attended the U.S. Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and is considered staunchly pro-American. The irony of Khanh's accession is that it could have happened three months ago. Khanh and a few other disgruntled Vietnamese officers were actually planning to topple the Diem regime when Big Minh and his fellow conspirators beat them to the draw...
...subsequent reshuffle of commands, Minh irked his seasoned fellow general by assigning Khanh to the 1st Corps in the North, one area that the Diem regime had pretty well cleared of Viet Cong guerrillas. However, Khanh firmly denied that it was personal resentment or ambition that prompted him to overthrow Minh. His 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...
...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...