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...improve after Kissinger finally visits the hemisphere in April. It should be quite a trip, with Argentina near chaos, Brazil's right-wing government showing some signs of loosening up, Chile under the heel of a regime that replaced Allende (whom the CIA is widely accused of helping to overthrow) and Venezuela angry about a new U.S. law that denies preferential trade treatment to members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Among other recent problems: Ecuador has renewed its sniping at U.S. tuna fishermen, and Colombia and Venezuela restored relations with Cuba despite U.S. opposition...
...assassination, there was confusion and uncertainty as to precisely what had happened in Riyadh. The official Saudi announcement had described the assassin, Prince Faisal ibn Musaed, as "mentally deranged." Inevitably there were rumors at the outset that the murder might have been part of a conspiracy to overthrow the House of Saud and with it one of the world's last remaining absolute monarchies. Only six years ago, Faisal had uncovered a plot by a number of his own air force officers; the conspiracy was apparently so widespread that some 60 officers were arrested, and the entire Saudi...
...current crisis has hit South Viet Nam during the President's tenth year in power. The son of a small landowner, Thieu, now 52, became a career soldier who fought for the French against the Communists in 1947-54 and played an important role in the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. Born a Buddhist, he converted to Roman Catholicism at the time of his marriage to Mai Anh, a doctor's daughter, in 1951. Because he was regarded as a moderate who could ease the differences between militant Catholic and Buddhist factions, Thieu in June...
...Prince and escaped into exile. Together, the three came to be known as the "three ghosts" of Cambodian politics because it was long believed that Sihanouk had ordered them executed in 1967 for alleged complicity in the Battambang uprising. But in May 1970, two months after Sihanouk's overthrow, the three announced, from somewhere in Cambodia, their support of Sihanouk's new "national front," which opposed the new government of President...
Chaotic Takeover. Some accounts from Portugal suggested that Spínola's role was not so passive. Apparently convinced that he could save his country from the chaos and Communist takeover he feared, Spínola reportedly plotted over open telephone lines with ultra-rightists to overthrow the government. Moderate officers, who might conceivably have joined the rebellion, were frightened off by the involvement of members of the old regime and feared that a rightist uprising would end up in a Chilean-style massacre of leftists and plunge the country into civil...