Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allende Gossens from becoming President of Chile in 1970-and in ousting Allende three years after he won office. Kissinger had told the committee in a secret session last August that in 1970 "President Nixon was encouraging a more direct role for the CIA in actually organizing such a coup" to topple Allende. But Nixon claimed in his testimony that "I do not recall being aware that ... the CIA was promoting a military coup in Chile." Allende in 1973 was the victim of a coup, but the CIA has insisted that the agency had nothing to do with...
While Lebanese army patrols and hundreds of Beirut militiamen fired off their guns to celebrate Ahdab's coup...
What prompted Ahdab's demi-coup was the collapse of the fragile seven-week-old Pax Syriana-the Damascus-sponsored truce of Jan. 22. The authorities, charged Ahdab, had simply been unable to maintain order or begin to build a consensus in the divided country. This threatened to push Lebanon into renewed war between right-wing Christians and Moslem leftists. All last week gunmen again began erecting street barricades and kidnaping scores of civilians...
...Keenan's job is not that simple. Iran's leader, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, who came to power by a CIA-sponsored coup in 1953, runs the Middle Eastern nation as a virtual police state. With the aid of his CIA-trained SAVAK, or secret police, the Shah has jailed 100,000 political dissenters, according to Amnesty International estimates...
...ensemble excel at comic vignettes. Mary Soloschin is very funny as a frenetic old miser who heaps up his wealth in storehouses, Michael der Manuelian captures in excruciating grimaces the plight of a parched seed, and Don Marocchio's impersonation of our former president is painfully accurate. Manulis' directorial coup, however, is his dramatization of the parable of the prodigal son, which features strippers enticing the prodigal to the strains of "Hey, Big Spender" and the amazing vocal contortions of David Alpert as the narrator...