Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rejoiceful about the overthrow of the Diem regime, as many are. However, as wrong as the Nhus might have been, they believed in their cause...
...only possible good that might result from the overthrow of the brothers Nhu is the tendency toward future discouragement of governments ruled by coalitions of brothers. Let us hope so: '64 is drawing near...
...would resign if our Club invited Governor Wallace to speak at Harvard alone. The majority of our Executive Committee and a majority of our members decided to extend such an invitation. That this course of events should be construed as a coup d'etat or a plot to overthrow is, at best, an unjournalistic attempt to stretch a point...
...Successful military coups, by their very nature, must come by surprise. Yet an attempt to overthrow the Diem regime in Viet Nam has been "in the wind" for months, as TIME readers know. Last September, in a five-column story, TIME discussed the dissatisfaction in the army and illustrated it with photographs of five generals and one colonel. Our top two pictures were of Generals Minh and Don, who led last week's coup. In Saigon, TIME Correspondent Murray Gart watched the attack on Diem's palace lying flat on his belly on a rooftop less than...
...whisky at the PX." It was a prearranged signal meaning that a coup might be imminent. While Saigon was still at lunch, thousands of men in combat garb were gathering just outside the city, buckling on equipment, checking their weapons, listening to last-minute instructions for the violent overthrow of the government...