Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Diem was executed in the 1963 coup, Minh became chief of state. He was ousted a mere three months later, having proved himself to be an ineffective administrator, and went into exile in Thailand. When he attempted to return in 1965, the tower at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport refused to grant his plane landing clearance; he had to return, humiliated to Bangkok. Three years later, Thieu-in what he described as part of a move toward national reconciliation-invited Minh back to Saigon. There Minh bided his time, tending the orchid garden at his spacious villa...
...would be quite a coup if we could win out there," light coach Peter Huntsman said. "If we row a race-like we did against our J.V. heavies a couple of weeks ago we should do okay...
WHEN THE ARMED Forces Movement led the coup last April 25 that ousted Premier Marcello Caetano and marked the end of 46 years of fascist rule in Portugal, the prospects for a fire Portugal looked good. At the time, General Antonio de Spinola disbanded the terrorist secret police, and promised the people a free press and free elections within a year. In the wake of a right-wing coup March 11, allegedly led by Spinola, it seemed that the people's hopes that swelled last year were imperiled. For a time, elections were delayed and the High Council...
...premier. Vasco dos Santos Goncalves a member of the High Council, told them that "hard times" lie ahead. While Goncalve's assessment may be true, not only for Portugal's economic situation, but for its delicate political transformation-constantly threatened by the return of an entrenched fascism that no coup could have eradicated in one year-Portugal's elections come as a welcome sign. They provide an example for those countries around the world laboring under the illusion of egalitarianism, an example of a Freely chosen Socialist state...
...Damascus, Syrian President Hafez Assad jailed perhaps 200 members of his own Baath Party amid dissident rumbles-including rumors of coup-against the longest-lasting government (4½ years) Syria has had since gaining independence...