Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parts of South America still untouched by the takeover trend, civilian statesmen are understandably eying their own military establishments for any signs of a desire to run the country themselves. In Chile, far-leftists, who made a strong showing in the presidential election last time, incite fears of a coup. They may do even better in the 1970 presidential balloting. As a result, there are rumors that the Chilean military is receiving advice from brother officers in neighboring countries to seize on the Communist threat as an excuse to take power. Such reports may be groundless, but they reflect...
THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Guns at Batasi (1964), a tart, topical drama about a military coup in Africa, starring Richard Attenborough as a starched relic of the Kipling era, hopelessly out of touch with the age of Kenyatta...
...worked, the scheme might have been a public relations coup of sorts for the ruling Greek junta. Two months ago, acting on a Scandinavian complaint that the Athens regime had unjustly suspended constitutional rights in Greece and was permitting the torture of prisoners, the Human Rights Commission of the Council of Europe, an 18-nation organization created to foster social and economic progress, called a special closed session to hear testimony. The Greek government complied by sending several heavily guarded ex-prisoners to the hearings in Strasbourg -but only after ordering them to deny all allegations of torture...
Confounded once more by a CIA coup, which deposes his friend Demasiado, he suddenly sees his carefully dedicated life about to be destroyed by political duplicity. Fleetingly, the U.S. Embassy becomes a symbol of the blind arrogance and wastefulness of all great powers. "He walked around the corner and saw the Embassy, every light on, the only building on the street with a bulb burning, a beamless lighthouse with all its light shining in on itself...
...Week was something of a coup for anti-administration radicals at Yale. Although President Kingman Brewster agreed in theory with the idea of a coeducation week, he wanted it held much later--maybe in January or February. Unable to get any immediate cooperation from "The King," a coalition formed of student government types, Yale SDS, and some of the younger college masters went ahead with plans to bring on the girls. When it became apparent to Brewster that he was being presented with Coeducation Week as a fait accompli he cut off communication with the organizers...