Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charter is hardly apt to end South Viet Nam's myriad uncertainties. Ostensibly it provides for replacing Khanh, who was overthrown by riots two months ago but has stayed on, supposedly as caretaker. The document, however, reflects another power struggle between Khanh and his old rival, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh. Evidently planning on retaining military say-so by making himself commander in chief, Khanh tried to persuade the 17-member council, made up entirely of civilians, to grant the army a "position of honor," exempting it from government jurisdiction. The council turned down the idea, but did provide...
...place its own chairman, a fragile elder statesman, Phan Khac Suu, 63, who spent eight years in prison for his opposition first to the French and later to Diem. At least theoretically, Suu was empowered to pick a civilian Premier to replace Khanh, reportedly asked Saigon Mayor Tran Van Huong, 61, a sometime porter, clerk-typist and school official, who says: "I was born under an unlucky star...
Doing the kicking, for the first time this year, will be left-footed Harry Van Oudenallen, whose unusually accurate coffin-corner kicks brought him raves from coach John Yovicsin and one of the best punting averages in the Ivy League last year...
...When Van Oudenallen came to Harvard two years ago, he was considered much more than a prospective punter. An All Metropolitan New York and in high school, he was also a top-notch lacrosse player...
...Viet Cong Terrorist Nguyen Van Troi, however, there was no tempering of justice. Troi, convicted of trying to kill Defense Secretary McNamara last spring had got a brief, bizarre reprieve when Venezuela's Castroite F.A.L.N...