Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your analysis of the China Nationalist position is a masterpiece. When it is fully realized that the East-West situation in Europe is merely the feint, it may be too late to prevent China from being our "coup de grace" in this world game of chess...
...something about the Costa Rican exiles who had been training on Nicaraguan soil for a comeback. By allowing their leader, ex-President Rafael CalderÓn Guardia, to attack, Tacho set up several interesting possibilities. If discontent with the Figueres regime had reached the boiling point, an overnight coup might bring Calderon to power. If the attempt failed, Tacho could rid himself of his embarrassing guests. If the Caribbean Legion intervened to help Figueres, Tacho would have a chance to turn loose his well-trained Guardia National on those sworn enemies...
Washington and the U.S. embassy in Caracas quickly set the matter straight. Colonel Adams had visited both the Ministry of National Defense and Miraflores Palace on the day of the coup, but his sole purpose was to get information about Lieut. Colonel Frank P. Bender, U.S. air attache, overdue on a search mission for a lost U.S. Army plane...
...back and forth. Dartmouth had an eight-point bulge in the second period, Harvard a similar margin in the third. But Leede won out in the end. He sent the game into overtime at 59-59 with 50 seconds left on two lazy free throws, and then administered the coup de grace with two field goals and three more fouls...
...President Romulo Gallegos, who flew off to exile in Cuba, blamed last fortnight's coup on 1) "powerful forces of Venezuelan capital lacking in social awareness"; 2) foreign oil interests; 3) the "scant attention the U.S. is paying toward Latin America"; 4) an unnamed foreign government. Said he: "There has occurred in Venezuela one more action like those which our democracy [throughout the Americas] has been suffering. Who is the director of this machine of oppression set on the march in our continent? What is the meaning of the notorious presence of a military attaché of a foreign...