Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conventional weapons." The choice, said Lloyd, is between a clearly defined line, "it being known on both sides that to cross that line means war," and a "no-man's land, into which it may be tempting to infiltrate, to try some kind of coup in the belief that undefended territory can be taken without risk of war." Added Lloyd: "In present circumstances and on the present demarcation lines, to disengage might well lead to a greater insecurity and a greater risk...
Thailand. Elections ordered by the new strongman, Marshal Sarit, were completed last week. Fellow travelers are reeling backward, deprived of the support of Pibulsonggram, whom Sarit ousted in last September's coup. Rice is cheap and plentiful. Sarit and all major parties back Thailand's past SEATO commitments, and prospects are that the country will continue prosperous and stable...
Pudgy, nearsighted General Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 43, already one of the world's senior dictators, last week began another five years as President of Venezuela-barring, of course, assassination or a coup by his military juniors. He won the term in a plebiscite that gave voters a choice of him or nothing. So cynically rigged was the election that two hours after the polls closed, Interior Minister Laureano Vallenilla Lanz summoned foreign newsmen to hear the results. Just as a small television receiver in the corner of his office beamed the opening of the first...
...this critical moment. In recent months, Communist Boss D. N. Aidit has increasingly had Sukarno's ear; politically, Sukarno has become increasingly dependent on the Reds as his earlier supporters became disillusioned. But even before Sukarno left the country, General Nasution, who participated in an abortive anti-Sukarno coup in 1952, was moving like a man firmly in the saddle. Backed by Premier Djuanda and most other Indonesian moderates of all parties, he ordered all worker seizures of Dutch properties to stop immediately. All army leaves were canceled, troops ordered into battle readiness and put on a stand...
Albright Art Gallery's coup of the year in acquiring Clyfford Still's Red and Black reveals a direction that should catch on-artist selecting museum instead of the old-hat method of museum selecting artist. As for the Museum of Modern Art's having to cool its heels for two years in order to own Still's work-good. They're such an impulsive group...