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...takes quite a pitchman and a lot of positive thinking to describe the recent Buddhist riots not as a threat of overthrow, but as a "test of Premier Ky's statesmanship;" or to view Ky's autocratic ousting of General Thi, as "the emergence of democratic leadership." Thi had to go, the Ambassador, asserted, "because he didn't represent the majority." The majority of the Vietnamese people? he was asked. "No, the majority of the military leaders...

Author: By Geoffrey L. Thomas, | Title: Vu Van Thai | 3/24/1966 | See Source »

...time of overthrow of former priemier Ngo Dinh Diem, Vu asserted, "the temptation was very great... to start a 'united-front' with he communists." But the Vietnamese people consciously chose not to," Vu said. "They would not easily forget the blood-stained experience of condition government with the communists in 1945-46," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vu Van Thai Hails Saigon Democracy | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...Syria to a nonintervention agreement with other Arab nations, Jadid wanted Syria free to meddle where it might. As for Hafez' Russian-style socialism, Jadid insisted on a far stricter Red Chinese version. Last December their feud exploded into the open when Hafez discovered a Jadid plot to overthrow him. Hafez chased his rival underground, forced pro-Jadid Premier Youssef Zayyen to resign, and replaced him with his own man. Jadid kept consolidating his power, however, and last week he struck back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria: A Party Affair | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...also charged that in 1953 th CIA "led the overthrow of Iranian Premier Mossadeph, and engineered the ouster of the Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954. It has engaged in independent subversive activities in Eastern Europe, Burma, China, Indonesia, Costa Rica, and others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SDS Protests CIA Interventionism Picketing at Career Interviews | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...South Africa and Portugal will give him all the materials he needs. It is equaly unrealistic to expect definitive action from the United Nations without the support of Great Britain and the U.S. Each nation must aid the African nationalists in whatever way it can. The Africans will overthrow Smith however they can, no matter what the cost

Author: By Musa Shamuyarira, | Title: High Lands and Low Symbolize A Rhodesia Separated in Crisis | 2/8/1966 | See Source »

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