Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the political debility of the French Republic, France is not yet on the verge of a coup d'état. The one individual who might bring off a coup-General Charles de Gaulle-cannot hope to do so without a far graver crisis and far more parliamentary support than he now commands. The unrest in the French army, which has aroused nervous talk abroad of a military coup, is still largely confined to a few embittered career officers, mostly young colonels exasperated by years of frustration in Indo-China, Morocco, Suez and now Algeria. As for the ordinary...
...Laureano Gómez rode a wheelchair to the polls in Colombia last week-and rode away from the election a revitalized political strongman. Less than five years ago, Rightist Gómez was ousted by military coup from power as a hated dictator; only six months ago he returned from banishment in Spain. But when he put his leadership of the Conservative Party into the balance against the party's other factions in the voting, the strong-willed ex-dictator, now 69 and weakened by a series of four heart attacks, easily won. "He is," Colombians explained with...
...born Assad Ibrahim. According to Ibrahim, said Serraj, Saud considered Nasser's union "Egyptian imperialism," and had sworn "by his father's soul that this union shall not take place." Ibrahim forthwith offered Serraj financial and moral support for the Syrian presidency if Serraj would lead a coup...
Serraj also showed a letter on Saud's royal stationery saying that after the coup "Shukri [el Kuwatly] and members of the present [Syrian] government should be detained and kept until the situation becomes normal and the republic is proclaimed. After that, they are of no value and can be disposed of." Without supporting evidence, Serraj charged that another Saudi emissary offered him another $5,600,000 to "send a plane after Nasser's plane when he leaves Damascus, and then say a Jewish, American or British plane was responsible for shooting it down." The same man, said...
...directors' meeting last week in Palm Beach, he was so quiet that one director later phoned him to ask what was the matter. Young brushed him off. To Young none of his troubles were the kind that he could solve, as before, with a single brilliant financial coup or a rough-and-tumble court fight. His goal of empire was moving away from...