Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Often invited to visit the U.S. earlier, Lott replied that "conditions did not permit." He referred to a group of troublesome Brazilian militarists who have obeyed him only grudgingly ever since 1955, when he called out troops loyal to him in a "preventive coup," forestalling a plot by some other officers and ensuring the inauguration of President Juscelino Kubitschek. For the past four years Lott has disciplined the hotheads gently (usually with house arrest), built a fiercely loyal cadre of junior officers by promoting them up from the ranks...
...most dangerous challenge, NATO marked its tenth anniversary Saturday. Although the Alliance has yet to realize the specific goals of military strength it set for itself, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has proved a valuable mechanism for collective defense. Created in the aftermath of the Czechoslovakian coup of 1948 and the Berlin Blockade, the Treaty signalled Western determination to resist further Soviet expansion in Europe. It also marked the first peace-time alliance to which the United States had ever committed itself; the collapse of Europe brought this country to a mature realization of its international role...
...London. Then St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif, claimed 22 ("the smallest guys on the campus''-see cut). For the benefit of Modesto (Calif.) Junior College, the telephone company got into the act. warily provided a booth that provided room for 32. But the Modesto coup clearly could not stand unchallenged. For one thing, the booth was lying flat on the ground; for another, the telephone had been removed...
...other hand, there are powerful pressures not to join. Campus politics is thought a "dirty game," and in some cases the belief is as justified as it is widespread. Spectacles such as the "coup" to overthrow the Council to Study Disarmament, and the vitriolic election battles within the HYRC can only arouse disgust, or perhaps amusement...
Though the group has met only twice this term, its purpose is to provide "an opportunity for conservatives--who are not too numerous around here--to get together and discuss their views." Asked about the "coup" in the CSD, Wyman claimed that "the majority of the present executive board had nothing to do with...