Word: coupes
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Henry Kissinger's triumphs have had one father. His one unmitigated debacle is an orphan. It was the Cyprus crisis of 1974, a chain of coup, invasion, countercoup and embargo that left the southern flank of NATO in chaos and U.S. prestige in the Eastern Mediterranean at an ebb. Laurence Stern, a veteran reporter on national security for the Washington Post, has written a compact and compelling account of the affair. He traces U.S. policy from the Truman Doctrine of 1947 to Clark Clifford's inconclusive mediation mission earlier this year, but he concentrates on the American missteps...
...after Makarios' ouster, while the rest of the world was condemning Sampson and his backers in Athens, the Secretary of State did not disguise his relief at the defeat of Makarios, whom he had long regarded as a mercurial, left-leaning troublemaker. By his refusal to denounce the coup, Kissinger seemed to tilt toward Sampson and the military rulers. Then, when democracy replaced dictatorship in Greece, and Turkey switched from being an aggrieved neighbor to an often brutal occupier of Cyprus, Kissinger shifted his stance in favor of Ankara. Throughout the episode, in the metaphor of Author Stern...
...course, what this latest series of revelations really does is open the U.S. up to totally new versions of historical events--complete revisionism. The CIA could now proceed to rewrite all kinds of foreign events: the war in Indochina, the Middle East, the coup in Chile, ad nauseum. And no one would ever know what really happened. After all, if the CIA could bribe the Nieman Foundation--as it did during the '50s, when it persuaded the then curator to accept a Japanese journalist then in the employ of the intelligence agency--it has probably been able to bribe just...
...Attempted Coup. Several members of parliament came to me and said I must warn my husband of a plot against him. I told him, but he left me infuriated by his calm. I asked him 'Who is with you? Not the Minister of Defense, not the Minister of the Interior, not the Minister of Information. None is with you.' He only said 'Don't worry. God is with us.' He is so calm, he makes me furious. It doesn't mean that he doesn't trust me, only that he doesn...
DIED. General Juan Velasco Alvarado, 67, former left-leaning military president of Peru; in Lima. Velasco seized power in a 1968 coup and nationalized U.S. oil and copper firms. His land reform gave millions of acres to peasants, but Velasco's growing dictatorial powers led to his ousting by more moderate officers...