Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last military coup (in Brazil)--about three years ago--the parties that claimed to be reformists were partly, let's say, an oligarchy that was trying to perpetuate its rule by just speaking in terms of fake reformism...
When Indonesia's Communists attempted a coup in September of 1965, General Omar Dani was commander of his country's MIG-equipped air force. As a Communist sympathizer, he allowed Halim Airbase near Djakarta to be used as headquarters and staging area for the plot; in turn, he was promised that he would eventually become chief of state. But the plot was smashed by the Indonesian army, and Dani, along with Foreign Minister Subandrio and other top government officials, was put in jail on charges of treason. Subandrio was tried by a military court and sentenced to death...
...Subandrio trial, much of the evidence against Dani suggested that President Sukarno himself had known about, condoned, and even taken part in the attempted coup. Dani's trial, like Subandrio's, brought renewed demands from Indonesia's anti-Communist professional and student associations that Sukarno himself be removed from his position as President and brought to court. The father of his country, however, seemed unfazed...
...fought three rounds with Archie Moore, who gave him a bloody nose. In 1960, he pitched an endless inning to a line-up of major-league All-Stars, who toyed with him by fouling off as many as 20 pitches before delivering the coup de grâce. In his latest adventure, Plimpton was last-string quarterback for the Detroit Lions during training season. This account of his adventure goes beyond an amateur's blushing recital to become a participant's picture of the sixties' hottest spectator sport...
Under the circumstances, Boumediene still does not feel safe enough to restore the constitution and National Assembly, which were suspended after the coup that raised him to power; instead, Boumediene rules by decree through his Revolutionary Council. His one grudging concession to democracy has been a promise of municipal elections in February. "A country such as ours," Boumediene says, "which has everything to do, which has need for order, organization and discipline after the terrible crises it has undergone, cannot allow itself the luxury of a formal democracy...