Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was a generals' putsch that failed ignominiously. At its end, the battle-tested "green berets" of the proud First Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment, who had backed the coup, were trucked off to Zéralda for the disbanding of their disgraced unit. The watching pieds noirs wept; the Legionnaires roared out the words of Edith Piaf's plaintive song, "Je ne regrette rien. " The Algerian war has elements of epic grandeur and terror that cry out for a Thucydides, if not a Gibbon to describe them. British Historian Horne, whose previous books include three studies of Franco...
...even the executive branch. CIA estimates were the basis of Kissinger's "Tar Baby" policy in southern Africa, a policy which committed the United States to support the white regimes because, supposedly, they were stable, and there were no viable black nationalist movements in the offing. The Portuguese coup of 1974 took the CIA totally by surprise. The CIA severely underestimated MPLA support among Angolans, as well as the support the Soviet Union and Cuba would give MPLA once the CIA, Zairean, and South African participation against MPLA became obvious. With percentages like the CIA's, a college football coach...
...benevolent vanguard group within the community--the Faculty/administration. Hence in the core debate the faculty proponents tried to blunt student opposition by continual references to the "community of educated men," for which the criteria of membership, of course, could best be defined only by the Faculty. In the Loeb coup, the Faculty reminded the students of the common goal to provide good theater, ignoring the need to develop good student theater...
...regime was already operating-"in the name of Allah," as its communiques put it-out of temporary headquarters in the government radio station. Afghanistan's customary seat of power, the sprawling Royal Palace compound in the heart of Kabul, was unusable. During the coup, the elegant mansions that had been occupied by Daoud and his advisers since they themselves seized power in 1973 were battered by a ring of rebel tanks supported by rocketing planes. Daoud, his aides, their wives and children, and many members of the 2,000-man palace guard were either killed as the compound fell...
...Khalq (Masses) Party, Afghanistan's principal Communist faction, Taraki led a campaign against the domination of the long powerful Mohammed Zahir family, to which both Daoud and the cousin-King he had deposed belonged. Taraki was periodically imprisoned for his activities; indeed, he was in jail when the coup erupted two weeks ago, and one reason that the plotters hit the presidential palace so hard was to free him before Daoud could have him murdered...