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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1955: Diem Overthrows Dai
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International Herald Tribune
05-02-2005
SAIGON: Premier Ngo Dinh Diem won control of the key National Army today [May 1] and put to flight absentee Emperor Bao Dai's commanding general in a sensational 24 hours of coup and counter-coup in South Viet Nam. Gen. Nguyen Van Vy, appointed by Bao Dai as army commander in chief, escaped from the Premier...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1955: Bao Dai Ousted
International Herald Tribune
; International Herald Tribune 10-24-2005 SAIGON: Viet Nam abruptly ended the spotty 23-year-old rule of former Emperor and Chief of State Bao Dai today [Oct. 23] and named Premier Ngo Dinh Diem to lead the nation toward republican status. Nearly 5,000,000 Viet Namese decided in a country-wide
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Bao Dai, at 83; was last emperor of Vietnam before communist rule
The Boston Globe
; PARIS -- Bao Dai, the last emperor of Vietnam who was forced to abdicate by the communists in 1945, has died after living quietly in France for four decades. He was 83. He died at the Val de Grace military hospital in Paris, the French Defense Ministry said yesterday. The Vietnamese Embassy said he
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Monarchs sitting and waiting
International Herald Tribune
; Philip Bowring International Herald Tribune 12-15-2006 The monarch of Malaysia probably has even less political power than the bike-riding sovereigns of Scandinavia. But the installation this week of a new Yang di-Pertuan Agong (king) in Kuala Lumpur the Sultan of Terengganu is a reminder of the
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Puppet ruler of Vietnam dies in exile
The Independent - London
; Paris (Reuter) - Vietnam's last Emperor Bao Dai, a symbolic ruler and puppet of the French colonial regime, has died in a military hospital in Paris after spending four decades in exile in France, officials said yesterday. He was 83. At first seen as a likely pioneer for Vietnamese independence
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LAST EMPEROR IN LINE THAT RULED VIETNAM FOR 150 YEARS DIES IN PARIS AT 83.(News/National/International)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Philip Shenon The New York Times Bao Dai, the last emperor in a line that ruled Vietnam for a century and a half, died Thursday in a hospital in Paris. Bao, 83, had spent nearly half of his life in exile after abdicating in 1945. Despite the hopes of Vietnamese nationalists early in the
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