Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Talk of a Coup. The military move started last month in the northeast state of Ceara, when an army general arrested four deputies in the state legislature, accusing them of Communist subversion. Castello Branco ordered the deputies released, but the general was backed by powerful allies-chief among them War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva, a prime architect of the revolution. For three days neither side budged, while the officers talked openly of a coup. Then the Ceara legislature mercifully intervened, revoking the deputies' constitutional immunity-thus making it legal for the army to arrest them...
...situation was indeed coming apart, and TIME'S stringer there, Walter Montenegro, who had gone back to his native country in the past year after twelve years on the staff of LIFE EN ESPANOL in New York, was dodging rifle fire to keep New York informed of the coup in progress...
...Lima airport and there saw Paz dashing away from the terminal in a Cadillac. He traced Paz to a suburban Lima hotel, and was soon getting a whimsical greeting from the exiled President, who wanted to know why Scott hadn't made it to Bolivia before the coup began. "Where were you?" he joshed. "What happened? Did you miss a plane...
Guns at Bafasi. In an unnamed African nation, newly promoted to Commonwealth status, Colonel lack Hawkins and Colonist Cecil Parker are discussing the military coup headed by a rebel leader, Jobila. Not a bad sort, really, Jobila. Spent five years in jail...
Batasi is best when it doesn't take its enlightened spirit too seriously. Sexy U.N. Secretary Mia Farrow (daughter of Maureen O'Sullivan, Tarzan's favorite lane in the Africa that was) turns the coup into a coo with John Leyton, a stranded British private. Flora Robson adds snap as a visiting lady M.P., but the pick of the lot is Richard Attenborough. As a starched and polished relic of the Kipling era, hopelessly out of keeping with the age of Kenyatta, Attenborough turns a cliché into a memorable character sketch-etched most sharply when...