Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truckers' strike which played a key role in toppling the regime; and that the CIA itself distributed over $20 million to prevent Allende's election and to overthrow him once he came to power. Nevertheless, the committee claims that the CIA was not directly involved in the 1973 coup...
Thus, while the Church Committee has not shown that the CIA was involved in the coup preparations, this does not prove that the agency was not coordinating the movements of funds and weapons between the U.S. and the Chilean opposition. Until all existing documents are examined and all involved government officials including Secretary Kissinger are forced to testify, the truth will not be established. The Church Committee should be forced to subpoena these documents and witnesses, and to take the issue to the courts, if necessary to secure them. Its current report is essentially a coverup, and the committee should...
...responsibility for the demise of the Allende government is no "left-wing political myth," despite the attempts of the New York Times and the rest of the American press to vindicate their ideological coverage of the events leading up to the 1973 coup. The Allende government was overthrown by American trained soldiers supplied with American money and weapons, suported by American-funded opposition press and strikers. That is only the covert side of American responsibility in Chile--the U.S. also destroyed the Chilean economy by organizing boycotts of its products, shutting off its international credit, and denying its industries essential...
Syria's socialist regime even allows a touch of capitalism these days. Entrepreneurs who fled the country after the 1963 Baath coup, taking billions of Syrian pounds with them, are being wooed back. Syria is also permitting the importation of luxury consumer goods like Mercedes-Benz limousines (Damascus price: $25,000-550,000) for a new millionaire class that has grown rich on booming land prices and middleman business. Foreigners are now allowed to enter Syria freely and tourism is encouraged; two luxury hotels are being built in Damascus. The streets of the dusty capital, one of the world...
Relations between Dacca and New Delhi have been cool since the assassination last August of Bangladesh's founder-president, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, in a military coup. India had strongly backed Sheik Mujib in Bangladesh's war for independence and was distinctly unhappy about the pro-Pakistan sympathies of the so-called seven majors who overthrew him. Although the majors were ousted last month in a bewildering series of coups and countercoups (TIME, Nov. 17), Bangladesh's new military rulers, headed by Major General Zia-Ur Rahman, have apparently carried on their predecessors' policy of less dependence...