Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Letelier had been a trusted Cabinet member under Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens. After Allende was overthrown by a right-wing military coup in 1973, Letelier was jailed for 14 months, then allowed to go into exile in Washington. His fellow exiles immediately blamed his murder on the Chilean secret police, but for nearly two years federal investigations were able to produce neither suspects nor direct links to Chile...
...Sadat was twice imprisoned for his revolutionary activities-the second time, in 1946, for complicity in the murder of a former minister in King Farouk's government. As the founder of the Free Officers' Organization within the Egyptian army, Sadat was intimately involved in planning the military coup that overthrew the monarchy in the July Revolution of 1952. He served the new government in a variety of posts and succeeded his long time colleague Gamal Abdel Nasser as president of Egypt after Nasser's death...
...July 1971 a Communist coup d'état took place in Sudan. My attitude was firm. I said we condemned it because we would not accept a Communist régime established on our doorstep-in a country sharing our borders. A few days later, however, the coup was foiled and President [Jaafar] Numeiry, having got rid of his enemies, was back in power...
...attitude to the Sudan coup caused the gap between me and the Soviet leaders to widen. Throughout July, August, and September, all I could receive in answer to my messages [inquiring about arms deliveries] was that [the leaders] were away in their Crimean summer resort...
Gustáv Husak, President of Czechoslovakia, denouncing criticism of the 30th anniversary of the Communist coup: "There is an Arab proverb: 'The dogs bark, but the caravan continues...