Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smartly guided by veteran Diplomat Henderson, the U.S. acted with surprising speed-only 17 days after the anti-Mossadegh coup-and wisely attached no tight strings to its gift. But President Eisenhower's letter did suggest "an early effective use of Iran's rich resources"- a polite way of saying that further aid might depend on Iran's willingness to settle its oil dispute with Britain and get its important resource, the Abadan refineries, back into business. Premier Zahedi seemed to understand. "In the near future," said he, "we should be able to begin to make maximum...
...drove his own car and often walked to work, stopping at a street stand along the way for a drink of tamarind juice. Surrounded by flashy ministers deep in all sorts of deals, Ruiz Cortines held his peace. But once, after hearing of one official's latest coup, he remarked: "I can't understand it. He has so much money. Why does he go after more...
...Hangover. But how much time is there? From Teheran. TIME Correspondent James Bell reported: "There is increasing pro-Mossadegh talk now that the shock of the coup has abated. No one I've talked with outside the Cabinet and court had a bad word to say about the old man. He still enjoys enormous personal popularity as one of the country's most honest, sincere and courageous patriots. One western-minded Iranian, critical of Mossadegh in the past, now says: 'There were some very bad men leading Mossadegh astray. But compare them to some of the people...
Finally, in 1951, the old man died. Mexico soon found that his heirs lacked his heart for such battles. Last week, 67 years after Senator George Hearst made his coup, legal title to the great ranch passed from the Hearst estate to the Mexican government. The government had been prepared for expropriation, but the transaction finally agreed on was an outright sale. The price: $2,500,000 cash. Thus passed the last of the great cattle empires of Mexico's north. Though Babicora will not, like other big ranches, be parceled out to peasants in small lots, it will...
...Italian partisans. His most haunting memory : a tug of war between love and loyalty, in which he turned in his girl Nina to the partisan chief Giulio because she was a German agent. The wound is reopened and history re-enacted when Florence is threatened with a Communist coup led by Giulio. But this time it is a ravaged and vengeful Nina who betrays Harry to Giulio. What happens when Giulio is murdered and Harry faces Nina again gives Author Clewes his title and a last twist-of-the-knife ending...