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...unqualified cold-war backing of Washington, which saw him mainly as an anti-Communist with a long border with Russia. For ten unremarkable years, he lived in luxurious disdain of the welfare of his countrymen. Then along came a crusty old nationalist named Mohammed Mossadegh, who as Premier nearly overthrew the Shah in 1953 and, in the process, woke him up. "Suddenly, I realized that we were not only standing still but losing ground," says the Shah. "We had to develop...
...Thieu, like so many of his countrymen, chose patriotism over ideology and enlisted in the Viet Minh, the forerunners of the Viet.Cong. He was a district chief, but his awakening came quickly: "By August of 1946, I knew the Viet Minh were Communists. They shot people. They overthrew the village committee. They seized the land." Thieu decided that the Communists were Viet Nam's real enemy, and he sneaked off to Saigon. There he tried the merchant marine and won an officer's rating, but he turned down a billet on a ship when he found the French...
Ever since the coup overthrew the constitutional government shortly before the Greek national election campaign was to begin, the State Department has refused to apply pressure forcefully or openly for a restoration. The junta, with complete control of the Greek news media, has led both the literate urbanites and the rural people to believe that the U.S. was--and remains--solidly behind the junta. No matter what Secretary McNamara or Ambassador Phillips Talbot may tell the Greek diplomats in private, it comes back to the Greek citizenry in only one way: "approval...
...work against him. Lately Saigon has been abuzz with rumors that Duong Van Minh, better known as Big Minh when he was Chief of State and commander in chief in 1963, might return from exile in Bangkok to enter the lists. The good-natured general headed the coup that overthrew Diem, but he would have to come home with the sufferance of the ruling generals, which is an unlikely prospect at the moment...
Ever since the Greek Army overthrew the government last Friday, it has been issuing contradictory reports and confusing labels. The military leaders claim that they acted to prevent a revolution planned by former premier George Papandreou, that King Constantine supported the coup and that the new government would somehow bring stability and remove the threat of "dangerous leftists...