Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dictator of the Nile, after a triumphal pause in Damascus to greet the leaders of the Iraqi army coup, had returned to his capital for an occasion: the sixth anniversary of the army-led revolution that first raised him to power in Egypt...
...Just Cannot Imagine." At 9:30 on the morning of the coup, a group of rebels arrived at the hotel in search of a general and three Jordanian ministers of the Arab Union. They ripped out telephones and ransacked the front office. With about 20 other foreigners, apparently seized at random, the Jordanians were loaded into a truck that started off for the Ministry of Defense. Among those seized were three Californians: Robert Alcock, George S. Colley Jr., senior vice president of Bechtel Corp. of San Francisco, and Eugene Burns, former A.P. correspondent. The truck drove slowly through milling streets...
...general, most of the world seemed to regard the coup d'état in Iraq as a genuine national uprising, and to deplore the dispatch of British and American troops to the Middle East. But there were some sober second thoughts, and subtle shadings. Even in Gamal Abdel Nasser's world, the realization dawned that the Russians had talked big but stayed away. And here and there, a world usually divided arbitrarily into West, East and neutral reacted in much less predictable fashion. Items...
...Sudan, ruled jointly for 56 years by Britain and Egypt, got its independence only 2½ years ago. But the Sudan's wily and forthright Moslem Premier Abdullah Khalil has shown himself surprisingly capable of keeping his young nation free. Eight months ago he smashed a threatened coup by arresting three officers and firing eight others, has since insisted on keeping his army free of Cairo-tainted men. Though pro-Nasserites shrilly cry that "American aid is more dangerous than British imperialism," Khalil goes right on negotiating with the U.S. When the Marines landed in Lebanon, he bluntly declared...
That afternoon the crowd swelled to a well-drilled 30,000 in front of the national palace, yelling: "Death to Castro León!" Castro León and 100 officers debated through the night at the Defense Ministry and made their decision: to answer the insults with a coup would cost thousands of lives. Castro León resigned. But the explosive issue is far from settled. The Communists are growing stronger by the day and will try desperately for some form of Popular Front victory in the elections. If they succeed, the military will probably start plotting...