Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven Days in May. One of Burt Lancaster's best performances about a military coup in the United States that flounders only because the general has an impeachable background (a woman), and the White House threatens to use it against him. Still very tense and even a little scary in its implications. Rod Serling wrote the script based on the novel by Knebel Bailey. I think the real credit goes to Bailey; Serling just knows a good thing when he sees it and only occasionally when he writes it. Ch. 56, 8 p.m., 2 1/2 hours. Black and white...
Periodically during the past two months, rumors of a right-wing coup have circulated in Lisbon. Last week those fears came to the surface again when a familiar but unexpected figure suddenly showed up in Europe. Flying into Paris from exile in Brazil−disguised, for diplomatic reasons, as "Antonio Ribero, writer"−was General Antonio de Spinola, who had led the revolution until radical officers forced his resignation last September. As recently as a month ago, the reappearance on the scene of the discredited conservative general would have provoked chuckles in Lisbon. If the situation remains uncertain, the monocled...
Ecuador, which happens to be the world's largest exporter of bananas, has often been regarded as the quintessential banana republic. Though the country has been stable for the past 3½ years, some sophisticated Ecuadorians still evaluate coups the way other people rate horses or vintage wines. Last weekend's abortive attempt to oust President Guillermo Rodriguez Lara, which left in its wake 17 people dead and 80 wounded, ranked very low on the scale. "I've never seen a coup so stupidly organized," sniffed one Quito connoisseur...
...foreign diplomat put it−was to surround the national palace in Quito and force the resignation of roly-poly President Rodriguez (known informally to his countrymen as el Bombita, or the little balloon), who has been Ecuador's benign, reformist dictator since leading a successful military coup in 1972. Setting up headquarters in a funeral parlor, the two rebel generals marshaled their forces, which consisted of 150 soldiers and six ancient U.S. Army tanks. The tanks are so old that one Ecuadorian general, upon returning from the U.S. recently, complained that there was one on display...
...Sunday night, Gonzalez's band of rebels attacked the 18th century palace. They overwhelmed the 34 members of the palace guard, who wear gold-trimmed blue coats, white breeches and tasseled pillbox hats and are meant mostly for display. Ignoring all the basic rules for carrying out a coup, Gonzalez neglected to close down Quito's airport and take over its radio stations−one of which refused to broadcast his manifesto on the ground that it sounded unbelievable. He also generously allowed Rodriguez's wife and children to leave the palace, thereby giving away...