Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago, after the fighting broke out again, Franjieh, a Maronite Christian, vowed to leave his palace only as a corpse. Even after army officers led by Brigadier General Aziz Ahdab mounted a coup to force him out of office and end the fighting, Franjieh huddled behind his loyal presidential guard at Baabda and refused to step down. But last week, as Franjieh hastily moved to a village city hall near the Phalangist stronghold of Juniyah on the seacoast 13 miles north of Beirut, a radio station supporting him announced "a temporary transfer of the seat of the presidency...
House Arrest. The coup left Venezuela and Colombia as the only sizable South American countries not ruled by military regimes, either leftist or rightist. The Argentine takeover was executed with clockwork precision, following a blueprint drawn up weeks earlier. As Mrs. Perón, 45, was being flown to comfortable house arrest in the country's scenic lake district, troops blocked the roads leading out of Buenos Aires and stationed guards at key factories and the headquarters of the leading labor unions and moved into the capital's street intersections. Meanwhile, a barrage of communiqués vested...
Speaking at North House, Huntington said there was a worldwide pattern towards a general extension of democracy, which had resulted in non-democratic ends. He cited the experience of Chile, where, Huntington said, "an over-extension of democracy led to a coup d'etat which has restored political stability...
...will be very surprised if Spain does not have a right wing coup in the next live years," Huntington said...
...England, where he is a political science student at Warwick University, Gowon denied any involvement in the coup attempt. Nonetheless the Nigerian government, which, after all, overthrew Gowon in the first place, seems bent on punishing him. Lagos radio said last week that "legal and diplomatic steps" are being taken to extradite Gowon to Nigeria, though it seems highly unlikely that the British government will accede to the request...