Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laos, where Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma has lately been trying to play the neutralist game, slipped ever closer to the precipice edge. To the south, an anti-Communist army faction led by General Phoumi Nosavan has been in obdurate though mostly nonviolent revolt against Prince Souvanna since last September. On a good will tour a fortnight ago. genial Prince Souvanna awakened one morning in the small northern village of Moung Sai, his head still dizzy from ceremonial quaffing of a strong rice spirit called choum, to learn that the royal capital, Luangprabang. had gone over to General Phoumi. Last week...
South Viet Nam, since 1954 the recipient of more than $1 billion in U.S. aid, was digging itself out after a surprise revolt against autocratic President Ngo Dinh Diem by three crack paratroop battalions (TIME, Nov. 21). As firmly anti-Communist as Diem himself (most of them are refugees from Red-held North Viet Nam), the paratroopers mutinied to force a change in Diem's dictatorial ways, which they charged were costing him popular support in the fight against mounting Communist infiltration of South Viet Nam. But with the revolt safely crushed, Diem last week turned more dictatorial than...
...Yonsei University had fired three professors and expelled leaders of a student strike, a thousand screaming collegians marched on the homes of the university's acting president and board chairman-both Americans-and reduced their possessions to kindling. At that, for the first time since the revolt against Rhee, Seoul's police were issued tear gas and guns with blank cartridges, and told to use them. Wading in, the cops hauled 200 ringleaders off to jail. Later, when younger students at Kangmoon High School, infected with the same fever of violence, locked their principal in his office until...
...Communist threat, Diem has ruled with rigged elections, a muzzled press, and political re-education camps that now hold 30,000. His key-and prosperous-advisers are four brothers and a pretty sister-in-law. The twin frustrations of dictatorship and an unending war eventually turned the paratroopers to revolt...
Diem seems to have won out again. The conditions that brought on the revolt remained...