Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their first public appearance together since they had resigned from the army earlier last week to give their regime a semblance of civilian respectability. At the close of the ceremony, in which graduating cadets took their oaths, Premier George Papadopoulos, the former colonel who masterminded last April's-coup, shouted: "Long live the King!" Coming from the man whom the King had tried to overthrow only a week earlier, it was indeed an extraordinary cry, but it reflected some new realities in Greece: 1) the King will probably return home sooner or later, and 2) he will become...
Travancas' fault was simply that he had been too successful. Before he took over Brazil's tax rolls after the 1964 military coup, only half of the country's 200,000 self-employed lawyers, doctors and small businessmen filed returns; and 95% of those returns, the government estimated, were false. In fact, the country's economists claimed that, if all Brazilians paid their taxes and businessmen brought home the $400 million they had stashed in foreign banks, Brazil could even do without foreign...
...tiny country of 2,300,000 people has regularly tossed out its government during the pre-Christmas season in odd-numbered years. Usually, the man who has served as chief bouncer is a general named Christophe Soglo, 58. Last week, right on schedule, Dahomey had its fourth coup in seven years. This time, it was a total surprise to Soglo, who was himself thrown out as President by a junta of his younger army subordinates...
They engineered the coup without even taking the canvas covers off the guns on their vehicles. A "Military Revolutionary Committee" installed Lieut. Colonel Alphonse ("the Paratrooper") Alley, 37, popular chief of staff, as President. Soglo sought asylum in the French embassy, where visitors reported that he was "quite depressed." He will probably want to wait at least until next Christmas before organizing any resistance. At week's end, he flew to Paris, where he will join three ex-Presidents of Dahomey, all coup victims who are now living nicely in the city's fashionable arrondissements...
...wake of the coup, which had been suppressed without bloodshed, the junta arrested a score of leading politicians who were suspected of conspiring with the King, put old George Papandreou back under house arrest, and seized several of the King's staff members. But toward the King himself the junta acted with restraint. At a press conference, Colonel Papadopoulos, who had taken over as Premier, insisted that the King had been misled. Had he known what the King was up to? Replied Papadopoulos: "Had I known, I personally-and the others-would have tried to enlighten...