Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sprawled in a volcanic valley of the Andean foothills, Arequipa is the traditional hotbed of Peruvian rebellion. Two years ago the military coup which hoisted General Manuel Odría into the presidency started in an Arequipa barracks. Last week another revolutionary struggle briefly shook the town; it was a civilian assault on Odría's militaristic regime...
...Muriel ("Pickles") Downs and 15-year-old Peggy Byrns to join him. Muriel's family were "strict" and made her go to prayer meetings twice a week, but her father had a .22-caliber target pistol and Peggy's divorced mother owned a 1935 La Fayette coup...
...Muriel swiped the revolver, Peggy got permission to use the car, and the trio drove to an alley near a small Long Beach liquor store. Tommy walked into the store holding the .22, Muriel stood at the door clutching a long-barreled air pistol and Peggy stayed behind the coupé's wheel...
Harsch believes that Russia's strength, like that of all religious states, is weakening around the edges, Tito, of course, is the obvious example, and the author thinks America's best hope lies in the nationalist heresy. He also takes courage from the failure of the communist coup in Finland in 1948 and the Western victory in Austria (though I think the rumblings of neo-Nazis in the latter place undermine his statement that "Austria is a great Western success story...
...delegation to the United Nations, had some stern strictures for both the abashed Quirino government and the Filipinos themselves. Said he: "Upon this [the elimination of the Hukbalahaps] depends the survival of our democracy or its humiliating descent to the status of a banana republic under a government by coup...