Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime Vice President, appointed nine civilian ministers -mostly nonpolitical civil servants in the old regime. To counsel Tho's government, the brass named a 15-man "Council of Sages," including business and professional leaders. But it is the military that is running the country. Lieut. General Tran Van Don, 46, the polished, French-schooled staff officer who helped mastermind the coup, was appointed Defense Minister. Major General Ton That Dinh, 36, the aggressive, vain commander of the Saigon district, was named Minister of Public Security, which gives him control of Ngo Dinh Nhu's secret police...
...Corpses. Behind the first euphoric reaction to the coup there was some fairly grim political business for the crowd of generals who had accomplished it. The officers under Lieut. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh first moved to consolidate their victory. Reportedly they executed the captured commander of Diem's elite Special Forces, Colonel Le Quang Tung, his brother, the Special Forces Chief of Staff, Major Le Quang Trieu, and a former leader of Diem's Republican youth. They also placed under "protective custody" several former Diem officials...
Punts, while few, were quite important in the half. Don McKay got Princeton out of trouble with a powerful 65-yard quick-kick, and the Crimson's Van Oudenallen averaged 44.5 yards on two kicks...
Princeton finally removed its zero from the scoreboard in the fourth quarter. The 93-yard drive late in the third period after a 44-yard Van Oudenallen punt placed the Tigers deep in their own territory...
Recent space flights have indicated the intensity of high energy protons in the Van Allen radiation belt and in solar bursts in interplanetary space...