Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sudan's regime has been dangerously weak but relatively democratic-unlike the militant dictatorships so common in the Arab World. Last week, at the beginning of the season of blazing desert heat, the Sudan's moderate but often corrupt civilian leaders were overthrown in a coup that was brought off with the suddenness of a Khartoum haboob. In the early morning, telephone and cable lines were cut, troop carriers rolled across the White Nile bridge and along Palace Avenue. Tanks took up positions at the front gates of the Republican Palace, built on the site...
Hoppe's greatest coup has been his discovery of "the perfect solution to absolutely everything" (which is also the title of a 1968 book of his best columns). His cure-all is "total birth control - it will solve all our problems in a single generation." His motto: "Think of the Generation Yet Unborn-Let's Keep Them That Way." The trouble now, argues Hoppe, is that "we all worry about the population explosion -but we don't worry about it at the right time." He doesn't have much faith in birth-control pills...
...Ohio, Gilligan already had come to personify the New Politics by defeating right-wing, incumbent Senator Frank Lausche in the party primary that May. It was a shrewdly run intraparty coup, and it rid the party of an embarrassing conservative...
...they will try to do one or all of these things ?they will simply be absorbed. They are overextended now. The fourth round, if and when it comes, will be a Six-Year and not a Six-Day War. It won't be ended by anyone's coup de grāce. They can't win this kind of war again." That is probably wishful thinking...
...coup attempt barely got started, largely because the two most prominent candidates to replace Wilson-Home Secretary James Callaghan and Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins -refused to support the plotters. Moreover, three other Cabinet Ministers, led by Secretary for Social Services Richard Grossman, took a strongly pro-Wilson stand. The Prime Minister felt so confident that he was able to brag to a May Day rally: "I know what is going on. I am going on. Your government is going on!" Wilson thereupon confided that he intended "taking this country by the scruff of the neck" and forcing...