Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Department sent a warning to Ioannides while Kissinger and former President Nixon were in Moscow in June, and it thought that the message had been taken to heart and the anti-Makarios movement dropped. Washington claims to have been as surprised as Makarios by the July 15 coup...
...violence against Turkish Cypriots, Sampson was clearly unacceptable to them and to Ankara. "In the context of Sampson," says Britain's former Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, "the Turkish invasion was inevitable from the beginning." The third error was for Washington, in the days following the coup, to state publicly that the Turks on Cyprus deserved greater autonomy, a statement that, although true, looked to Turkey like an invitation to invasion. State Department officials now privately admit that the statement should have carried a warning against the use of force. Once the Turks had decided on intervention, however...
...Middle Eastern expert who had been working as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in Washington, Davies, 53, presented his credentials in Nicosia just five days before the coup that ousted Archbishop Makarios, Cyprus' President, and launched the island on its path to disaster. A quiet professional, he sought to convince both Greeks .and Turks on the island that the U.S. was interested in a just settlement and had tried to douse the wildfire of bitter anti-Americanism among the Greek Cypriots. In the face of the passions unleashed by the fighting on the island, the odds against...
...Mexico never cut its ties with Cuba. The leftist government of Salvador Allende Gossens in Chile re-established relations with Cuba in 1970, but they were severed again last year after Allende was toppled by a right-wing military coup...
Just a Figurehead. In its present draft form, the document allows Selassie to retain the title of Emperor, but he will serve only as "a symbol of Ethiopian unity and history." Although some of the more radical leaders of the military coup object to even a figurehead monarch, they have been persuaded, at least temporarily, that the success of their reform movement depends upon continued support among the peasant majority (95% of the country's people are illiterate), who still revere the Emperor...