Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon cocktail parties, Army Boss General Hinh used to threaten a coup almost daily and joke that when he overthrew the government he would exile every member of Diem's family except Mme. Nhu, whom, he said, he would keep as a concubine. One day Mme. Nhu finally met Hinh face to face at a party. She walked over to him, recalls an observer, and said: "You are never going to overthrow this government because you don't have the guts. And if you do overthrow it, you will never have me because I will claw your throat out first...
...assembly, the right to fly their flag, Buddhist chaplains in the army. But Brother Ngo Dinh Nhu has always urged a hard line. What he fears-with some reason-is that if Diem gives in even slightly to the Buddhists, it would only cause new demands that would eventually threaten the government's whole power structure. By week's end, however, in a belated attempt to ease tensions, the government ordered the release of 267 Buddhists arrested during the demonstrations...
...dragged by the hair by Pritchett himself, and thrown into her cell. After being transferred to a juvenile detention center in another county, she was placed in solitary confinement and the light was removed from her cell. Later a police dog was brought to her cell and allowed to threaten her. When she finally responded to this treatment, she declared that she didn't need an electric light because Jesus was her light. She refused to talk with the FBI men who came to ask how she had been treated. The last is understandable from her experience...
...Gurion suddenly withdrew his resignation from the Knesset, on condition that he would only attend parliamentary sessions if he felt like it. Neither Eshkol nor the opposition politicians were too happy about Ben-Gurion's keeping his foot in the door. Now, should Eshkol falter or a crisis threaten, Ben-Gurion might charge back into office to save the country from alleged disaster...
...year. In the United Kingdom and Germany the cost of living was up 2.8% in 1962, and in France 5.4% ; Italy has undergone a 6.6% jump in the past twelve months. Booming Japan's living costs have climbed 6.8% in the first five months of 1963, enough to threaten Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's hopes for a doubled per capita income by 1970. In Latin America, the increases are stratospheric: Argentina's cost of living rose 31.5% last year. Chile's 20.8%, Brazil...