Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dancing feet in Bangkok's perennially gay nightspots had scarcely missed a beat when the government radio announced that "due to present world tension and the Communist infiltration in parliamentary circles, the Army, Navy, Air Force, police and patriotic Siamese had found it necessary to stage a military coup d'etat." Most of Bangkok merely sighed and carried on. It had been a revolution by news broadcast...
There were two good reasons why the coup was quiet: 1) all the nation's armed forces for once" were on the same side; 2) efficient strong-man Premier Phibun Songgram, the ablest engineer of coups in the country, had staged this one against himself to streamline his government. After four hours, during which he was thrown out of office by prearrangement with his generals, admirals and air marshals, the Premier re-emerged at the head of a government more powerful than ever...
Slansky arranged the successful coup of 1948, supervised the purges that followed, used his power as secretary general to install his own people in vital jobs. He was also Moscow's watchdog, and even kept an eye on President Gottwald himself (who, when he has one drink too many, has a habit of talking sarcastically about Communist bigwigs). At Cominform meetings it was Slansky, not Gottwald, who represented Prague...
...left to die after a skirmish in which government forces routed Villa. Before he could die however, he was jerked to his feet in front of a firing squad. The bullets which crashed into his chest merely knocked him down. A sergeant's coup de grace only nicked his ear. The sergeant's cursing captain seized the pistol and sent a .38 bullet into Gomez' head at the hairline-but late that night Gomez still lived...
Dwight Hyde 1B, newly-appointed head football coach at Open University, yesterday scored a minor coup by luring three Winthrop-House and two Dudley players to the Vermont school. The announcement followed Winthrop's 34 to 0 victory over Dudley at Soldiers Field...