Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief adviser, beginning in 1941, when the 19-year-old prince ascended the throne. For a decade after the death of her husband King Norodom Suramarit in 1960, Kossamak reigned as Cambodia's "Supreme Guardian" while her son acted as chief of state. Following the 1970 coup that ousted Sihanouk and abolished the monarchy, Kossamak, her health failing, was held under virtual house arrest for three years before being allowed to join Sihanouk in exile in Peking. Her deepening illness clouded Sihanouk's recent victory celebrations and delayed the return home of the newly appointed lifetime head...
With the soldiers and the refugees came rumors and gossip, which sometimes were printed by the Saigon press as though the editors wished they could be true. In this surreal atmosphere, the entire city seemed to have heard that China had invaded North Viet Nam, precipitating a coup in Hanoi and necessitating the withdrawal of seven Communist divisions from the South; that U.S. Marines had landed at Vung Tau, Danang and Cam Ranh. "It is like a dream," admitted a Saigon journalist...
Early one morning last February, Eli M. Black, 53-year-old chairman of United Brands Co., plunged to his death from his 44th-floor Manhattan office. Early last week General Oswaldo López Arellano, 53-year-old Honduran chief of state, was overthrown in a bloodless coup. The link between the two men was an alleged $1.25 million bribe that is now being investigated by both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a Honduran commission...
...President Lopez. The Honduran commission has not yet unearthed any hard evidence that pinpoints Lopez, but the fact that he was the only official under investigation who refused to allow a review of his foreign bank accounts was considered sufficient grounds for his dismissal. The force behind the coup was the 25-member Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. The Council, which is dominated by young left-wing military officers, had been trying to ease Lopez out of power since last March, when they forced him to resign his position as chief of the armed forces. Last week they named...
...first came to power by overthrowing the liberal government of Dr. Ramon Villeda Morales in a bloody 1963 coup, since 1972 had ruled Honduras by decree and without a Congress. During his only elected term in office, from 1965 to 1971, López led his troops in the '69 four-day "Soccer War" with neighboring El Salvador, a bloody fracas that claimed more than 2,000 lives and devastated the nation's economy. He returned to power in 1972 by ousting the elderly, constitutionally elected President Ramón Ernesto Cruz...