Word: coupe
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...industries. Under the inept government of Juan Perón 's widow Isabel, inflation in Argentina was galloping at an annual rate of 350%. The Treasury, down to its last foreign reserves, was about to default on its overseas debt. Then, on March 24, in a bloodless, clockwork coup, the military deposed Isabel Peron from the presidency. Led by the Commander in Chief of the army, Jorge Rafael Videla, the new junta set two goals: crushing terrorism and reviving the economy. How well has it done? Last week TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand cabled this assessment...
Neither of the junta's aims has been wholly achieved. But a year after the coup, Argentina's military government has brought the country from paralysis to the edge of hope. Terrorism sputters on, but Argentines have learned to cope with it, even ignore it. Buenos Aires' boutiques and restaurants are jammed. The economy, though troubled, shows encouraging signs of strength. Proudly, President Videla claims, "We have progressed a lot in a short time, but we have a long...
Biographer Joanna Richardson, a British specialist in 19th century French authors, shows that it was politics more than literature that made Hugo a living myth. After Louis Napoleon Bonaparte betrayed the republic in his 1851 coup d' état, the writer, originally a Bonaparte supporter, raged against the new emperor from exile. When Napoleon III finally fell in 1870, Olympic returned a hero...
...told apart." Plans for encyclopedic TV series modeled on Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man hung in the air. All of this would be distributed for various TV and educational outlets around the U.S. It might have been the largest coup of Hoving's career, but last week it turned out to be a huge Indian gift. Enraged by city officials' criticisms of the plan, Annenberg, after taking out an imperious warning ad in the New York Times, canceled the project. He made it plain that the center would...
Echeverria did little to alleviate the political crisis. Widespread rumors that the President was planning a coup to stay in power were faced by an unexpected, and hardly reassuring, display of power. In November, charging that large landholdings were unconstitutional, he ordered the expropriation of 243,000 acres in the northern state of Sonora. The land was to be given to the landless peasantry; and overnight, 8000 farm families moved into the land. Landowners and the industrial elites all over the country resisted by closing down shops and factories for 24 hours across the nation...