Word: countercoups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...event, a Beirut newspaper carried a cartoon showing a baffled Leonid Brezhnev trying vainly to fit the word "Arabs" into a crossword puzzle. The Soviet Communist Party leader has a good deal of company in his perplexity, particularly after the last few weeks. In addition to the coup and countercoup in Khartoum, there have been these astonishing spectacles lately...
...initial revolt was bloodless, but the countercoup was a running battle that littered the streets of Khartoum with dead and crowded its hospitals with wounded. Though the fighting was confined to the capital and to Omdurman across the Nile, the repercussions rippled far beyond the Sudan. The Soviets quickly supported the dissidents and were noticeably distressed by Numeiry's countercoup. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, the hotspur of the Arab world, barged into the internal problems of another nation for the second time in two weeks. He was more effective than he had been in Morocco, however. By forcing down...
...wing military force led by his own army chief of staff had seized power, declaring that it would give Bolivians "the destiny they deserve." By the end of a wild week, both Ovando and the rival military men were out. In power, following a seriocomic sequence of coup and countercoup, was Latin America's latest left-wing military regime...
Though the countercoup restored power to the Hausas, their choice to lead the government was Yakubu Gowon, who is both a Christian and a member of a minority tribe (see box following page). Gowon tried to stop the pogroms. At the same time, he firmly limited Ibo power by regrouping Nigeria's four regions (North, East, West and Midwest) into twelve smaller units. The Ibo East was gerrymandered into three states, two of which had non-Ibo majorities. The move also deprived the Ibos of control over much of the oil that was making Nigeria rich. Ojukwu...