Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President. You'll be the first Arab leader to speak English with a German accent. Did you meet Mr. Sisco [Under Secretary Joseph J. Sisco, who is about to resign]? I had to bring him with me -if I left him in Washington he might mount a coup d'etat.' Assad laughed. Kissinger assumed that the Syrians, like other Arabs, were intrigued by his success with women, so he talked about women and repeated some lecherous pleasantries...
...violence appeared to be the work of the country's well-organized extreme right wing. The chief targets have been opponents of the country's still powerful military establishment, which ruled until 1973. Many Thais believe the right is now maneuvering to bring about a military coup. Military men are concerned about the country's strikes (25 major work stoppages last year), almost daily demonstrations and rumors of Communist subversion. Some talk openly of taking power. "This is a weak government, a corrupted government," says one businessman with intimate military contacts. "The longer...
When the April 1974 coup in Portugal took place, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola--MPLA--controlled large areas of Angola. In these areas it set up cooperatives, while in the towns it organized trade unions. The FNLA, which the CIA had supported since 1962, was "virtually inactive" by 1972. (1) FNLA was based almost entirely in the Bakongo tribe. Unita retained a little more credibility, but was also small and tribally based. The U.S. government showed its opinion of Unita when it said in a top secret memorandum (NSSM 39) that the Portuguese allowed Unita...
Soon after the April 1974 coup it became clear that Angola, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau were going to be granted independence. MPLA was the strongest group in Angola; it was also the most independent and nationalist...
There were solid underpinnings for the bullishness. Earlier in the week Chrysler completed the sale of Airtemp to Fedders Corp. Long a drag on profits, Airtemp had run up losses of about $35 million since 1971. The sale was the second coup pulled off by Riccardo and his deputy, President Eugene Cafiero. Last fall they threatened to close Chrysler's beleaguered British subsidiary and add to Britain's grim unemployment picture. Prime Minister Harold Wilson angrily complained that his government had "a pistol at its head." But he eventually came up with $325 million to rescue the subsidiary...