Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night of April 21, 1967, battle-clad Greek soldiers arrested nearly 7,000 politicians and Communist suspects as part of the successful coup that established a handful of unknown army officers as the new rulers of Greece. A year later, more than one-third of those who were spirited away that night still remain in detention, a source of continued embarrassment to the regime of former Colonel George Papadopoulos. Last week an international controversy flared up over how the prisoners are being treated...
...receive adequate medical care. Even so, the Red Cross considers only one of the three camps suitable for long-term confinement, has protested against the overcrowding and lack of proper sanitary facilities in the other two. The government also holds several hundred prisoners who have been arrested since the coup on such charges as distributing anti-junta leaflets and planting homemade bombs in or near government buildings. They are imprisoned in Athens, and most of the charges of torture refer to them...
Wine at His Feet. The whirlwind liberalization continued to buffet the country, bringing joy to most people but guilt and grief to others. Defense Minister Bohumir Lomský was among many who were forced to resign in disgrace; he denied having had a role in an attempted coup to prevent Dubček's takeover last January, but admitted that others had "misused" units of the army for that purpose. Josef Břešγtanský, 42, deputy president of the Czechoslovak Supreme Court and the man in charge of reviewing the trials of the Stalinist purge...
...Prague in a belated attempt to save him, Novotný resigned the party job in January, and Dubček was elected to replace him. Even then, Novotný did not completely give up. His allies in the Defense and Interior ministries put to gether desperate plans for a coup, and at least one tank battalion was ready to roll into Prague on Novotný's behalf. But the coup fizzled when other commanders demanded written orders from the Central Committee before moving. (Major General Jan Sejna, then one of the architects of the coup, defected...
...obscure army officer three years ago, Suharto took command of the military after putting down a Communist coup attempt in 1965, then slowly began to take charge of the government. Indonesia first regarded his quiet but drastic moves as a necessary antidote to the grandiose, 22-year misrule of Sukarno. Initially diffident even about accepting the title of Acting President, Suharto finally decided that he needed the full title to give him the authority necessary to make reforms. Once decided, he used every tactic he could to get the title-including packing the assembly by replacing 200 old members...