Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...democracy dead in Pakistan? "Of course not. Any country which does not have a Communist dictatorship has some form of democracy." What will happen to all the politicians thrown out of office by his coup? ''They should pray a little bit now and ask forgiveness from God for their sins." Pakistan's troubles, said Ayub Khan, arose from the clash of power between the President and the Prime Minister: "I say, after you have elected a man for a fixed period, it is much better to let him have a run instead of pulling his leg every...
...possibility that Batista might want a graceful exit from an uncomfortable situation. The favorite was Batista's man, Andres Rivero Aguero, 53, a longtime henchman hand-picked to succeed the dictator. At Batista's side since 1933, Rivero Aguero was one of his lieutenants in the 1952 coup, was rewarded with the Ministry of Education and last year with the title of Prime Minister...
Barring a military coup or an uprising far stronger than Castro has been able to mount thus far, Rivero Aguero was a shoo-in. Whether he would ever really run the country was another question...
...Student Council last night voted 13 to 2 to censure the group which staged the recent "coup" in taking over the Committee to Study Disarmament...
...Could It Be? In the outcry following this journalistic coup, Galeazzi-Lisi first defended his act ("I waited until my patient was dead"), then denied that he had received "un soldo" for his pains, then resigned his post. The College of Cardinals banned him from the Vatican. As the storm of censure mounted, the greatest cry was appropriately against the money-hungry doctor rather than the story-hungry press. Milan's daily Il Giorno (circ. 150,000), coming to the astonished realization that the Pope's chief physician was not a tried clinician, asked what was, perhaps...