Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coup was "treasonous" and "unmasked the true character of the party...
...President Sukarno and ready to side with Defense Minister Abdul Haris Nasution and the rest of the military brass, who are consolidating their hold on the country. Whether his move will be successful is in doubt. Many officers still suspect Subandrio of sympathy with-if not complicity in-the coup attempt, and the army shows no willingness to settle for anything less than a clean-broom housecleaning of all Reds and Red sympathizers.* Stepping up its campaign' to discredit the Communists, the army last week made public the confession of the country's sixth-ranking Communist, a labor...
...P.R.D.) he demanded the withdrawal of OAS peace-keeping troops, even said the U.S. should pay $1 billion "indemnity" for its part in the OAS intervention.* For all the nationalistic talk, many Dominicans regard Bosch's belated reappearance-after more than 3,000 had died following the April coup in his name-as something less than a hero's return. Now, with presidential elections set for next June 1, Noncandidate Bosch is fighting a battle within his own party...
...more dangerous challenge came from the hard-line military officers who backed the coup against leftist President João Goulart 20 months ago. They took bitter issue with the President's determination to honor the results of the October gubernatorial elections in eleven states-including Guanabara (Rio), where the surprise winner was an old-time politician whom the military has been grilling about Communist ties' Castello Branco reacted by shutting down a far-rightist military group known as LIDER, then bolstered his strength at the First Army's huge base outside Rio by putting...
...government knew the coup attempt was being plotted, but hardly anybody took it seriously. Shortly before 2 a.m. one day last week, Dr. T. Alcibíades Espinosa, a gynecologist and nabob of a small, far-right group with almost no support among the military, marched into the National Historical Archives Building in the inland city of Santiago, followed by a corporal's guard of 60 men armed with machetes, baseball bats and a few ancient rifles...