Word: coupe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coup had been bloodless: all important garrisons had pledged in advance to support it. General Odria flew up to the capital in an army plane, was met by 2,000 cheering Limeños and a military band. That night, in a kind of radio fireside chat, he talked vaguely of better times for labor, agriculture and the army, promised that elections would be held "after a brief transitional government." But he gave no assurance that Peru would continue the experiment in democratic government begun under Bustamante. (Said Bustamante in his farewell: "Democracy is like the sun; its eclipses...
October 12 was set as the day of the coup, and General Velez ordered a final meeting at headquarters for the night of Sept. 23. That afternoon Reyes got a tipoff, frantically called an emergency meeting at home to warn his associates. But there was a double double-cross and the police sprang the trap then & there. The name of John Griffiths, onetime U.S. embassy worker, was tossed in to give the conspiracy some foreign color. He had once been friendly with Reyes...
Reports from Hanover yesterday indicated that the Indians' main effort of the day would occur shortly before game time. The exact nature of this coup is a well-kept secret, but it is understood that it will be engineered by members of The Jack O' Lantern, Dartmouth's humor magazine, with the financial backing of the Daily Dartmouth...
...pulling Pearson into politics, the Liberal bigwigs had brought off the neatest coup that Ottawa has seen in many a day. At 51, Mike Pearson has an international reputation unrivaled among Canadians. In London and Washington (where he was ambassador in wartime) he has made more friends for Canada than any of his predecessors...
...Christian General," as he was sailing back to China "to help overthrow" Chiang Kaishek; in a fire aboard the Russian motorship Pobeda, in the Black Sea. An up-from-the-ranks peasant soldier, Feng participated in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's 1911 coup against the Manchus, reputedly baptized his troops with a garden hose after he became a Methodist in 1913. His quick-change loyalties led him to support and then betray Chiang at least four times...