Word: countercoups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King is dead," actress Melina Mercouri said last night after a concert sponsored by the Greek Students of M.I.T. at Kresge Auditorium. "His countercoup was a farce...
Lansana did not last much longer than the man he deposed. At week's end a group of dissident officers staged a countercoup, arrested both Lansana and the man who stood to benefit most from his annulment of the elections-Sir Albert Margai-and locked them up with the Governor General and the victorious opposition leader. Then, with the nation's four most powerful politicians out of the way, they named an eight-man "National Reformation Council" to run the country. Headed by 39-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ambrose Patrick Genda, who was deputy army commander until...
...into Ghana to be used, so police say, to sabotage the big International Trade Fair, now under way in Accra. The country is full of rumors about assassination plots against the military rulers. Two army officers and two other men have been arrested on the charge of plotting a countercoup. Cracking down, the military regime has enacted an antisubversion law that is reminiscent of Nkrumah's own draconian measures. Under the law, anyone who attempts to establish contact with Nkrumah, who plots subversion or who even knows about a subversive plot and fails to report it, is subject...
...maintain East Germany's socialist economy. Ulbricht wins congratulations from Pope Paul VI but is overthrown by a hard-lining Communist clique when public opinion in East Germany runs rampantly in advance of the formal negotiations and forces him to order the Wall torn down. After a countercoup, negotiations resume, and by 1975 a four-power conference, convened by France, approves the new German confederation...
...Appeasement." Last week, however, seemed to be a good week for China's Communist bosses. U.S. efforts to establish a "stable" government in South Viet Nam seemed farther than ever from fruition after another ludicrous sequence of coup and countercoup. The shooting war against the Viet Cong was relatively quiet, and President Johnson, despite his recent air reprisals against North Viet Nam for attacks on Ameri can personnel, now seemed willing to let matters calm down. But at home, the cries for negotiations leading to a withdrawal from Viet Nam came to crescendo...