Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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General Gursel had been struck at a bad time. A month ago he had expelled 14 young junta officers who wanted to postpone elections and the return of democratic government until the army had enforced drastic authoritarian reforms on virtually every phase of Turkish life. The mass trial of ex...
One of Gursel's 16 attending physicians, Dr. Ismet Karacan, who had been an assistant to Harvard Neurologist Dr. Raymond Adams, suggested calling him in. Dr. Adams flew from Boston to Ankara. Last week, after Dr. Adams had examined General Gursel, the relieved panel of doctors announced that the...
...temple bells to the strident sounds of war. And although he was hoisted to the premiership by young (26) and moody Paratroop Captain Kong Le after a successful coup d'état in August, Souvanna basically abhorred soldiers in government ("There is always a coup in the offing"). He loved peace. To re-establish it after seven years of trouble with the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, Souvanna hopefully sought to end the nagging civil war by forming a government of "national union" that would range from his own neutralists to the pro-U.S. faction of General Phoumi Nosavan...
But hard as Souvanna tried, the country would not be pacified. Instead, it ran apart like globs of skittering quicksilver. The soldiers began fighting each other. Pathet Lao guerrillas encircled Vientiane, the seat of Souvanna's government, under the guise of coming to negotiate; Souvanna's own Captain...
As if all that were not bad enough, last week the garrison of Vientiane rebelled. Captain Kong Le, who was away at the front, could do nothing about it. The new garrison commander, Colonel Kouprasith Abhay, began purging leftists from the garrison forces. Equably, Souvanna remarked: "We prefer someone who...