Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belaúnde's critics, were revealed to be getting salaries as high as $3,000 a month -stunningly generous by Peruvian standards. It was shown that a navy troopship had made no less than four trips smuggling in contraband. Then came the affair that caused the coup against him by the disgruntled armed forces. Belaúnde had rashly promised to expropriate the U.S.-owned International Petroleum Co. "the very day I am inaugurated." He did not, primarily because he did not want to antagonize Standard Oil (New Jersey), of which IPC is a subsidiary, the U.S. Government...
...contract dealing with oil, a resource vital to the country's security. Two weeks ago, Belaúnde responded to the outcry by firing his Cabinet, making it the scapegoat for the affair. But he replaced it with one that the army considered even less competent, and the coup last week was the military's reply...
...entirely of military men. One of its first acts was to cancel the agreement that the Belaúnde government had reached with IPC. Asked when there would be new elections, General Velasco said nothing. Once more, a Latin American army had taken over a civilian regime. The bloodless coup in Peru brought to three-fourths the proportion of people on the continent living under military rule...
...outcome of the meet was decided long before the final mile. But it was the last ascent of Van Cortlandt's legendary Cemetery Hill that produced the coup de grace...
...since the early days of Diem." Thieu described Minh's return as part of a national reconciliation plan, said he would soon send emissaries to Bangkok to bring him home by Nov. 1, South Viet Nam's National Day and the fifth anniversary of the anti-Diem coup...