Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, Bulganin's survival instinct failed; he sided with Malenkov and others in the so-called "antiparty" plot to remove Khrushchev as First Secretary of the party. The coup failed, and Khrushchev gradually eased Bulganin from office; he drifted from job to job until retiring...
...resources have run out--either ferretted away down the well-greased tubes of official corruption, or expropriated by the Khmer--and Lon Nol has become a pathetic junkie for American dollars. The Cambodian army is disorganized, inefficient and apathetic it has almost no popular support. Almost immediately after the coup that brought Lon Nol to power in 1970, the Khmer Rouge began to expand rapidly, and since then they have been slowly winning support in the countryside and steadily regaining the ground Lon Nol took from deposed Prince Noredom Sihanouk. The Khmer are now armed with a well-trained fighting...
...general confusion exists about the Khmer leadership. Before the 1970 coup, Sihanouk actively expressed the Communists Party of Cambodia. Since his exile in Peking began, though, he has become sympathetic to the Khmer and they, in turn, have given him at least tacit support. In a series of pronouncements from Peking during the last few years, Sihanouk has indicated, in phrases reminiscent of Nixon, that he would like to return to Cambodia after Lon Nol's ouster as a kind of self-styled elder statesman. The Khmer have given little indication of what role they expect Sihanouk to play...
What is clear, though, is that the Khmer are fairly independent. They have a long-standing feud with the Vietnamese and they are apparently angry with the Soviets for maintaining an embassy in Phnom Pehn after the coup and they include as members both nationalists and communists. One other thing is certain: they would crush Lon Nol in a matter of weeks if the airlift is stopped...
...coup in Uganda involved a classic case of arms bouncing from country to country. The five Sherman tanks used by General Idi Amin Dada in the army revolt against President Milton Obote were originally sent by Washington to the Soviets under the World War II Lend-Lease Act. Moscow later transferred them to the Egyptians, from whom they were captured by the Israelis in 1967. Israel overhauled the tanks and then delivered them to Uganda as part of an aid program...