Word: strife
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...coup was at least partly due to the Catholic reaction against the concessions Khanh had been forced to grant the Buddhist majority in his strife-torn nation in the past few weeks. The coup leaders are officers who had either been fired by Khanh or were on the brink of being cashiered. Top man seemed to be Brigadier General Lam Van Phat, a lean, taciturn officer who last week was eased out of his job as Interior Minister in Khanh's Cabinet. Under the murdered Roman Catholic President Diem, Lam Van Phat had been appointed 7th Division commander...
Then, in obvious reference to eruptions of racial strife, he added: "When men will seek political advantage by turning their eyes away from riots and violence, we can well understand why lawlessness grows even while we pass more laws . . . It is a responsibility of the national leadership, regardless of political gain, political faction or political popularity, to encourage every community in this nation to enforce the law, not let it be abused and ignored...
President Johnson nonetheless professed himself proudly pleased-at least the Southern rebellion had been limited, so far, to the states of Alabama and Mississippi. But as events in Philadelphia would soon prove (see following story), the nation's racial strife cannot be papered over-either in the South or the North...
Whereupon Tshombe announced that unless Massamba-Debat immediately stopped supporting the Congolese rebels, some 50,000 Brazzaville citizens who live in Leopoldville would be deported. Tshombe's object: to overload Brazza ville's shaky economy, fan enough dis content to overthrow Massamba-Debat's already strife-torn government...
...preliminaries were almost over. At Hershey, Pa., the Republican Party, after months of internecine strife, went a long way toward binding up its wounds. The Democrats are about to launch their campaign with next week's national convention in Atlantic City. The machinery of the great quadrennial U.S. exercise in politics was oiled up and ready to move toward Election Day, Nov. 3 (see following stories...