Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt

September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/September 13, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 22:29, 28 August 2014 (UTC)



An attempted coup took place in South Vietnam before dawn on September 13, 1964. Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc sent dissident units into the capital Saigon in an effort to overthrow the ruling military junta led by General Nguyen Khanh. The units captured various key points and announced over national radio the overthrow of the incumbent regime. With the help of the Americans, Khanh was able to rally support and the coup collapsed the next morning without any casualties. In the immediate month leading up the coup, Khanh's leadership became increasingly troubled. He had tried to augment his powers by declaring a state of emergency, but this only provoked large-scale protests and riots calling for an end to military rule, with Buddhist activists at the forefront. Fearful of losing power, Khanh began making concessions to the protesters and promised democracy in the near future. He also removed several military officials closely linked to the discriminatory Catholic rule of the slain former President Ngo Dinh Diem; this response to Buddhist pressure dismayed several Catholic officers, who made a few abortive moves to remove him from power. Can't find anything Vietnam related in the last few months. The blurb needs work. I just took the first 1150 characters. Also needs an image. Can I make a request that part of the future FA status criteria includes including the title of the article in the first sentence? When articles have to run and it doesn't include the title the first sentence has to be (sometimes awkwardly) re-written. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 14:30, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Most recent similar article(s): August 5 (Military History): Southern Rhodesia in World War I
 * Main editors: User:YellowMonkey
 * Promoted: 2010
 * Reasons for nomination: 50th Anniversary of event
 * Support as nominator. Harizotoh9 (talk) 14:20, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Made a start on reworking the blurb, beginning with the opening couple of sentences (although you'll never get the change that you suggest to the criteria (see MOS:BOLDTITLE: "If the article's title does not lend itself to being used easily and naturally in the opening sentence, the wording should not be distorted in an effort to include it"). If there's no appropriate image, then there's no appropriate image - we don't have to have one, and I don't tend to run images of marginal relevance just for the sake of having an image. BencherliteTalk 09:58, 30 July 2014 (UTC)