Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abortive coup was virtually over by late Wednesday. Next day the government flew planes, singly and in squadrons, over Lisbon to show that it was in full control. Moderates on the Revolutionary Council finally ousted General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the Castro-admiring military-security chief, and sent home the security police. Army Chief of Staff General Carlos Fabião, Navy Chief Armando Filgueiras Scares and Admiral Antonio Rosa Coutinho ("Red Rosa") were also forced to resign for supporting the radicals...
...Communist Party was obviously uncertain what success the ultra-leftists would have. It cannily stood on the sidelines, ready to join in or denounce their efforts as the occasion warranted. By Wednesday, when the coup was collapsing, the Communists were piously warning against "desperate political acts by the left." Although the best-organized of Portugal's parties, the Communists will now have to deal with a strengthened center and with the greater stature of such men as Scares, Melo Antunes and Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo, not to mention the new presence of Commando Colonel Neves...
...first seems to waffle and waver, yet even Kissinger has come to respect his exquisite sense of timing and his decisiveness in the crunch. Outwardly modest and self-effacing, inwardly tough, Assad today appears to be consolidating his control of Syria, a country that underwent no fewer than 21 coups or coup attempts after the French mandate ended in 1946. Last month Assad celebrated the fifth anniversary of the "corrective movement" that brought him to power as head of Syria's Baathist regime...
...after he had tidied up a considerable turbulence in his regime. There had been two days and nights of military comings and goings at the Palacio Tupac Amaru, and at the end two influential generals were retired from the army. General Morales had either broken up a possible coup or, as one of the tame Lima newspapers put it, had simply moved "to have his own men in positions of trust and power, normal with all incoming Presidents in most parts of the world." His guys, so to speak...
...month, despair and cynicism among the large and seemingly helpless bourgeoisie. How this highly favored land, with its 10 ft. of topsoil and 25 million homogeneous people of European descent, achieved such a colossal mess defies understanding. For the past six weeks the word has been that a coup could come any day, with the army taking over from the pathetic Isabel Peron, but there is only modest hope that this would make matters noticeably better...