Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Army tanks rolled into the Presidential Palace, Brazilians knew for sure that somebody was staging a coup. Shortly thereafter, Getulio Vargas, sitting in an automobile, rode out of his 15-year home...
Same day, Tito announced Dr. Subasich's resignation. Subasich had complained in effect that their seven-month-old coalition had turned into a dictatorship, that the Nov. 11 elections would be a farcical Communist coup. Now Tito bluntly accused him of quitting to provide a "motive for foreign intervention...
Sundstrom is surrounded by a well chosen supporting cast which acts with unobtrusive competence rather than with individual histrionics. Perhaps most authoritative are the diametrically opposite forces of Clay Clement, instigator of the coup de main, and Lesley Woods, embittered widow, who tries to turn de Mauny (Sundstrom) from his plan...
Bathroom Scene. Ostensible excuse for PerÓn's new wave of terror was an abortive coup instigated in CÓrdoba by brave but bumbling ex-President General Arturo Rawson. But the resounding demonstration staged in the streets of Buenos Aires last fortnight by 500,000 irate Argentines, some of them bearing a placard of famed Patriot Rogue Saenz Pefia was the tip-off to PerÓn that he had better get tough...
...years ago, related soft-spoken Aranha, General Eurico Caspar Dutra conspired to overthrow President Getulio Vargas. (Current point of the story: Dutra is a candidate for the Presidency in Brazil's December national election, and Vargas is ostensibly supporting him.) The plot was nipped by Vargas before the coup could be executed, Aranha said...