Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MILITARY COUP: If and when the military think it their duty to intervene, then I'm out. I don't think I will have anything to do with it. But right now everything is under control and manageable by me. Don't worry. I know everything; I know everybody. I say this without the slightest trace of self-conceit. The whole sense of this country is that we must have legal and constitutional government. The moment has passed for government by the conquest of arms. A legal government is the only solution...
...country most likely to vote Communists into office is Italy. Such an occurrence would greatly encourage the French Communists, who for almost four years have been closely allied with the Socialists. In Portugal, the Communists have been in the government since the 1974 coup, and Spain's Communists (though still underground) have formed a coalition with left and center groups...
...have argued that the Communist parties would allow themselves to be voted out of office if and when the electorate rejected their programs. According to this argument, the Communists in Europe have clung to power illegally only when the Soviet army was at the border, ready to enforce a coup with armed might. But there is always the possibility that a Communist government in Western Europe might not need Russian help if it had firm control of the country's police and internal security forces and key segments of the armed forces...
...most successful "family" shows and introduced another hit, the teeny-bopper variety show Donny and Marie. In February ABC was ready to capitalize on its new-found strength. Rich Man, Poor Man, a sexy twelve-hour serial that could turn into a series, was launched. Then Pierce delivered the coup de grace to his rivals: he made the Winter Olympics an eleven-day prime-time special. Sports President Roone Arledge's consummate showmanship and superb coverage grabbed a nightly 34 share of the audience and blunted the impact of CBS'S and NBC's new shows...
...trip to happen: an audience with the Premier himself. Sterling and Smallwood had been promised some time with Fidel, perhaps even a whole day. Smallwood prepares yellow pads full of questions for Castro. Sterling stays looser, anticipates the meeting less as an ideological confrontation than as a social coup...