Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...November, having set the stage, Sergeev prepared his biggest coup: he invited ten eminently respectable, topnotch Greek editors, politicians and educators (plus one fellow-traveling newsman) to visit Soviet Russia and see the proletarian heaven for themselves. Last week they were back after 25 days, and twelve of Athens' 14 newspapers were carrying their combined story, "What We Saw in the Soviet Union...
...Socialists got more of the same when they tried to censure. Lyttelton for his drastic action last October in forestalling a Communist coup in British Guiana. Both sides of the House had applauded his statement that there is no room in the Commonwealth for a Communist state, but the Socialists questioned his wisdom in suspending the tiny colony's six-months-old constitution. They muffed their case badly: James Chuter Ede, onetime Laborite Home Secretary, made a memorable blooper by referring to Guiana as an "island...
Carlos Prío Socarrás, 50, Cuba's President until his overthrow last year in a military coup, was arrested in Miami last week by a U.S. marshal. The charge: conspiring to smuggle arms out of the U.S. in violation of the 1939 neutrality act. Hotly protesting his innocence, Prío was freed on $50,000 bail to appear this week in a U.S. district court in Manhattan...
After Ickes died last year at 77, this mass of personal reminiscence became the object of spirited bidding. The ultimate buyers, Simon & Schuster, announced the event in tones which indicated they had accomplished a major coup. The diary is to be a massive affair, even after editing, but the publishers have run off two pre-publication printings (25,000) of Volume I, The First Thousand Days, and are at least outwardly confident that the work will be received with increasing fervor as succeeding volumes follow it to the bookstores...
Agents Inside. The plan was worthy of the Moscow-trained coup d'état experts who prepared it, but for one fatal flaw: Major General Farhat Dadsetan, Teheran's smart military governor, knew all about it from his secret agents in the Resistance. He summoned his commanders, told them to avoid gunfire if possible, so as to deny the Reds martyrdom. But if they had to shoot, the troops were to shoot to kill...