Word: thies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whereupon those who saved Khanh -including Airman Ky-turned on him themselves. The Armed Forces Council reportedly voted a no-confidence motion against Khanh. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, commander of the northernmost I Corps, was proclaimed chief of the capital's "liberation forces." For the moment, the winners seemed to be Thi, Ky and IV Corps Commander General Nguyen Van Thieu...
Subsequent events were almost a ritual. There was the usual nighttime powwow by the angered officers. Before dawn the next day, Sunday-it seems to be always on Sunday-there were ominous troop movements in Saigon. Reportedly the operation was directed by Brigadier General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the mustached, intense commander of the I Corps in the northern region, and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, who affects harlequin glasses and a pearl-handled revolver. Squads of police sped through Saigon's darkened streets, arresting seven council members and a dozen-odd politicians and student leaders...
...Catholic refugees from Communist North Viet Nam and, as the residents fled in boats, burned 90% of their homes. The government was either unwilling or unable to stop the riots. Beyond detaining 40 looters, Vietnamese troops in Danang merely watched the proceedings. Their Buddhist commander, General Nguyen Chanh Thi, appeared once, drew cheers from the rioters, retired after inspecting the ruins. Mobs broke into a church and smashed a statue of the Virgin. Roving bands looted everything, including stocks of vitamin pills. When prostitutes in a second-story window heckled the rioters, they burst in, pitched one girl from...
What, No Nudges? Over the years be fore Brooks Atkinson's retirement as thi Times's critic last spring, the Kerrs an< Atkinsons became particular friends "What Jean and Oriana thought abou the theater was often more interestm; than what we thought," said Atkinsoi last week. "They were less inhibited. The) were more slashing than we could be." Producer David Merrick, the Shubert Al ley Catiline, came to that conclusion some time ago, claiming that Jean Kerr influenced her husband during performances by a series of codelike nudges. Kerr responded in print with a riposte that made Merrick look like...