Word: coup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy, automatic antidotes to backwardness and poverty that they are often assumed to be, mineral-rich Bolivia (pop. 3,300,000) should be a paradise. The bloody uprising of 1952 led Bolivia into the world's most comprehensive social security, illiterate Indians got the vote and land, the coup-prone army got abolished, and the mines that enriched tin barons of old got taken over by the government. The U.S. chipped in $129 million in aid during the next six years-more Yankee aid dollars per Bolivian than for any other people on earth...
Criticism has been leveled against White for his alleged appearance at the polls with supporters of a Democratic candidate, and for his role in a coup which briefly took over the Committee to Study Disarmament...
...wonderful." One sign of his confidence: he bucked Peru's Roman Catholicism by pushing through an annulment of his 40-year marriage to a long-estranged first wife, then married Clorinda Málaga, 53, his great and good friend for 25 years. The danger of a military coup remains; the pro-oligarch army is uncomfortable in the new atmosphere, but otherwise Prado's course is paying off. He has repressed the Communists and helped nurture a middle class of 350,000 families that is moving into the middle ground between oligarchs and masses...
Though the president of the deposed council protested, "This is a veritable coup d'etat" and there were rumors that the councilmen might meet in secret on French soil, Monegasques were neither rushing to the barricades nor fleeing to the border-a ten-minute walk from almost anywhere in Monaco. The 58-man army did not spring to arms, and Prince Rainier soothed his subjects by promising women the vote in national elections, a project dear to the heart of his U.S.-born wife...
Pompous, martial and arrogant as President, Rojas in the prisoner's dock was gaunt and meek. Gone was the suntan he got last month from a gunboat Caribbean cruise that the government gave him after he foolishly tried a coup. Once when the presiding officer demanded that the former strongman rise when spoken to, he protested that he deserved "reverence" as an ex-President. Afterward he was humble. Respectfully, he addressed his accusers as "Honorable Senators"; the senators referred to him simply as "the accused...