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...news came from the sunny Adri atic island of Brioni, 340 miles from Belgrade, where the 75-year-old Tito called together a 155-man plenum of the Yugoslav Central Committee to name names and prefer charges. The leading plotter turned out to be Tito's erstwhile heir apparent, Vice President Aleksandar Ranković, 56. Tito accused his former guerrilla lieutenant of "conspiracy" to undermine Yugoslavia's economic reforms, of encouraging "damaging activity" by the state security police, and-most shocking-of bugging Tito's own home. Within eight hours Ranković had resigned, and-while denying...
Died. Field Marshal Abdul Salam Aref, 47, President of Iraq, a wily plotter who was General Abdul Karim Kassem's right-hand man in the 1958 army coup in which King Feisal was murdered, later that year fell from favor and was imprisoned by Kassem for pro-Nasser leanings, but was released in January 1963 and within a month grabbed power in a bloody revolt (Kassem and his chief aides were machine-gunned), after which Aref nimbly walked the tightrope of Middle East politics, surviving eight attempts on his own life; in the crash of his Russian-built helicopter...
Expunging PUNG. There was reason to worry. In November, his Politburo announced details of an abortive coup d'état that aimed at the murder of Sékou and the overthrow of the regime. Chief local plotter: Mamadou (Petit) Touré, a distant cousin of the President who was fired last year from the directorship of a national textile firm for embezzlement. Last week Little Touré was rumored to be under sentence of death, along with two former government ministers, an army battalion commander and a slew of petty traders - all members, apparently, of an outfit known...
...could assert its right to govern against the claims of the so-called "constitutionalist" government of Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, 32, the officer who triggered the revolt on April 24. Caamaño's political background is murky. He is quarrelsome, opportunistic, a plotter who, in the words of one U.S. official, "has the potential of becoming another Fidel Castro." His father, Lieut. General Fausto Caamaño, was boss of Trujillo's secret police, took a leading part in the 1937 slaughter of 15,000 Haitian squatters. Young Caamaño joined...
...even as the war heated up, the political ferment in Saigon was calming down. Tensions were eased by the departure of Lieut. General Tran Thien Khiem, the professional coup plotter and former member of South Viet Nam's ruling triumvirate who went into exile last week. Ousted by Premier Khanh in response to the wishes of Air Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky and his clique of young officers, Khiem departed Saigon at midweek. It was a lachrymose leavetaking. Tears gleamed in the eyes of General Duong Van ("Big") Minh as he bussed Khiem on both cheeks, and Khiem himself...