Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bizarre Drama. The Palestinian diplomatic coup was the climax of a bizarre week-long drama of Arab and Israeli face-saving, double-talking, bluff-calling and epithet-hurling. It began when the Security Council, after frantic three-day consultations, accepted a Syrian demand that renewal of the mandate for the U.N. forces on the Golan Heights be linked to a proposal for a full-scale Security Council debate on the Middle East. Representatives of the P.L.O., who gained permanent observer status in the General Assembly last year but had never been included in Security Council proceedings before, were...
Emboldened by the failure of an abortive radical coup, Portugal's moderates took charge last week in what might fairly be called a middle-road revolution. Since the putdown of the Nov. 25 leftist plot, more than 100 officers and soldiers have been arrested and flown to a safe prison in Oporto. Other radical officers and civilians fled the country, as did a scruffy mob of youthful revolutionary groupies from other nations in Western Europe, who had flocked to Lisbon to help the cause. "It's dreadful," complained one beautiful Swedish blonde. "The revolution's over...
...revolt led by detachments of radical paratroopers, it now appears, was only the first step of a giant plot to oust the shaky moderate regime headed by Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo. The radical coup failed because the Communist Party hesitated to call masses of workers into the streets as expected and because leading military sympathizers, like Admiral Antonio Rosa ("Red Rosa") Coutinho, responded to a last-minute patriotic call to duty from Costa Gomes and urged their followers not to revolt. Beyond that, the paratroopers inexplicably rebelled a day ahead of schedule, and ludicrous oversights allowed the moderates...
Serious Problems. One unanswered question was the role of the Communists in the coup. In Lisbon's Constituent Assembly last week, moderate party delegates charged that the Communists had actually plotted the revolt, but then had stood aside as it became evident that the uprising would fail. Communists nevertheless denied complicity in the affair. "It is clear that my party disapproves of the happenings as they turned out," said Communist Party Spokesman Carlos Brito-to hoots of laughter in the Assembly. Socialist Leader Mario Scares demanded that...
...enduring unrest in the French army is all the more dangerous because of the chilling example of Portugal. Since the April 1974 military coup in Lisbon, governments in Western Europe have been scrutinizing their armed forces-once regarded as citadels of conservatism-for dread signs of "Portugalization." French government officials believe that leftists have taken advantage of the recent military malaise to alienate the army. Defense Minister Bourges claims that Portuguese officers have been dispatched to France to spread revolution in the army and that more than 100 Frenchmen of draft age have gone to Portugal to learn subversive tactics...