Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slogan, LET GEORGE DO IT. Only one Reagan operative was on hand. But F. Clifton White, the upstate New Yorker whose brilliant organizational work was a major factor in Barry Goldwater's 1964 nomination, flew in with several of the men who helped him pull off that coup...
Profitable for Both. Greek leaders admitted that, left on their own, they just could not do the job. But it took a military coup to end more than two years of negotiations and political bickering over the terms of the contract. "We're not just altruistic businessmen," says a Litton executive. "We hope to make it profitable for them and for us. If we are successful, it will improve the standard of living in Greece, it will bring us more income, and in the end it will mean more business...
...Nasser." Women flailed about screaming as if in mourning, scooping up dust and throwing it on their heads. By bus and train, camel and foot, peasants poured into Cairo, inveighing against the "U.S. imperialists" and pleading "Nasser, stay with us!" If, as some intelligence sources indicate, an incipient military coup was in the works against Nasser, the plotters got the message. So did everybody else. Mohieddin announced that he would refuse to take over. Nasser's Cabinet voted not to accept his resignation; Nasser's rubber-stamp National Assembly did the same. Just as he had probably calculated...
...past six months, Mao has tried to run his revolution through a three-way alliance between party members, Red Guards and the army. The result has been a three-way brawl. Now, in what amounts to a coup within a revolution, power has largely passed to the 2,500,000-man army of Vice Premier Lin Piao...
...current stability is that Kekkonen has encouraged the Communists to take part in the Finnish Cabinet. Although it consistently polled one-quarter of the votes in Finland's postwar elections, the Communist Party until last year had been kept out of the government because of its attempted coup in 1948. A year ago, Kekkonen allowed it to enter a coalition Cabinet, almost certainly under pressure from Moscow. The apprehension that accompanied that move has since faded, largely because the Communists have behaved respectably and legally. Perhaps Russia's primary motive is to demonstrate to other nations with sizable...