Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book on Trujillo's assassination, reported that the CIA actually was involved in three plots to kill the dictator. In 1958 the agency promised to provide a group of dissident Dominicans with a sharpshooter and rifle if they could induce Dominican General Rodriguez Reyes to lead a coup after Trujillo's death. The plot backfired when Reyes told a conspirator: "Trujillo made me, and I am a Trujillo...
...Santiago lawyer active in human rights cases swears is true, symbolizes a grim fact about life in Chile today: the torture stories that were the hallmark of the military junta's first year still continue. True, midnight arrests and unexplained detentions are rarer now than immediately after the coup, and summary shootings have stopped, but terror has become institutionalized. It operates in the hands of DINA, which has an estimated membership of 1,000 and is responsible only to Military Strongman Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. DINA (Dirección de Informaciones Nacional) maintains centers for interrogation where dozens of suspects...
Most Chileans recognize that the junta did not cause the country's economic problems; indeed, when the military overthrew Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens in 1973, inflation was running at a rate of 800% annually. But even right-wingers who ardently supported the 1973 coup have now begun to speak out about the "social cost" of the government's approach to the economy. Under Finance Minister Jorge Cauas, the government is resorting to economic "shock treatment"-15% to 25% reductions in government spending and attempts to hold the money supply down. Basically, the government's economic planners...
...Minister from 1957 to 1960, Sato was a master of the Japanese art of consensus, which he used to rule the country's dominant but faction-ridden Liberal-Democratic Party and manage a policy of government-assisted industrial growth that transformed Japan into an economic superpower. The greatest coup of his steadfastly pro-U.S. foreign policy came in 1969 when the Nixon Administration made an agreement to return Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty, but his political position was soon badly shaken by a surprise shokku: President Nixon's rapprochement with China in 1971. A year later, Sato retired...
...Clerides is able to write provisions for a strong central government into the new Cypriot constitution, the Turks may have Archbishop Makarios to contend with. Makarios was overthrown as president of Cyprus in a coup d'etat shortly before the Turkish invasion last summer...