Word: countercoups
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...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...
...fire-breathing editorial attack on corruption that eventually drove President Getúlio Vargas to suicide. The following year, when Juscelino Kubitschek got himself elected President with the help of Vargas' party, Lacerda fomented a coup to prevent Kubitschek from taking office; only a countercoup by loyal army officers upset the plot. All the while, Lacerda was blistering Jânio Quadros, then governor of Sāo Paulo, whom he called "a paranoiac," "a delirious virtuoso of felony," "the Brazilian version of Adolf Hitler." The two called off the feud long enough to cooperate in the 1960 elections...
...officials. Chang described the revolt as merely "a riot." Only when the coup clearly proved to be successful did Chang join the winning side as "a sly, base opportunist." But later, the judges held, instead of backing General Park, Chang undermined him and tried to organize a countercoup...
...protect the life" of ex-President Arosemena the successful revolutionaries appointed four of themselves a "Tribunal of Honor," to keep a keen eye on him lest he stage a countercoup...