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...replace the more independent and prestigious Tran Thieu Khiem, the most senior military officer in South Viet Nam, who, significantly, was expected to join the anti-Thieu opposition. Hours earlier, police had arrested more than ten people in various parts of Saigon on charges of plotting a coup to overthrow Thieu. Several of those arrested were associates of former Premier and Viet President Nguyen Cao Ky, who two weeks ago called on Thieu to relinquish his powers to a more broadly based leadership...
...corruption within his father's old guard and has opened higher positions within the Kuomintang's hierarchy to Taiwanese. He has quietly shelved his father's quixotic crusade for retaking the mainland, insisting instead that the people of China will some day rise up and overthrow the Communists. Former President Nixon's 1972 journey to Peking produced dismay and anxiety on Taiwan. Since then, U.S.-Taiwan relations have stabilized; they are courteous, if not quite so close as before. For his part, Chiang Ching-kuo is relieved that Washington shows no present inclination to meet Peking...
Americans by and large are not imperialists; but we are unfortunate at present in having a highly imperialistic administration. I think that by far most Americans are deeply shocked--indeed can hardly believe it--when they learn that their government secretly subverted and helped to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chile under its democratically elected President Salvador Allende...
...strongly non-Communist conservative groups. The day after the arrests, Ky and Father Thanh held a news conference to announce the formation of an Action Committee for National Salvation that would press Thieu to relinquish his near absolute power. None of the action committee sponsors favored an overthrow of Thieu; indeed, they seemed to believe that a coup would only further lessen public confidence in the government. But the conservative opposition argued that South Viet Nam now needs a strong, broadly representative, anti-Communist movement while reorganizing the army to defend a smaller perimeter around Saigon and part...
Meanwhile, high-level Portuguese military officials announced that they had uncovered a Portuguese Liberation Army whose aim was to overthrow the government and halt the decolonization of the African territories. The secret right-wing army, they said, was based in Spain, with cells in Angola and Mozambique, and had participated in the March 11 coup attempt. Officials went out of their way, however, to point out that no links had been found between the mercenaries and the CIA, although at least one newspaper claimed otherwise...