Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem. The assassination in November 1963, although it was part of a coup that was started with some U.S. support, was "a spontaneous act... and was carried out without U.S. involvement or support...
Chile's General Rene Schneider. In October 1970, Schneider, commander in chief of Chile's army, was killed while resisting a kidnaping attempt. President Nixon in September had ordered the CIA "to play a direct role in organizing a military coup in Chile to prevent [Salvador] Allende's accession to the presidency," and the kidnaping was viewed as an indispensable and unavoidable element in that coup. As it happened, the CIA five days before had withdrawn its support of the particular group that pulled off the kidnaping that resulted in the general's death...
Heroic in War. In some cases, the Americans made the mistake of thinking they could indefinitely control dissident groups that they were supporting. The U.S. had encouraged the plotters against Diem, but then changed course. On Oct. 30, 1963, just before the coup, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge cabled Washington that he was unable to halt it. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense William Bundy cabled back from Washington: WE CANNOT ACCEPT CONCLUSION THAT WE HAVE NO POWER TO DELAY OR DISCOURAGE A COUP. Three days later, Diem was murdered...
...elections for Australia's House and Senate on Dec. 13. From one end of the continent to the other, the public was stunned-and Whitlam's Labor Party supporters were outraged. In Canberra, the federal capital, Kerr's action was being assailed as a "legal coup d'etat" that could trigger the most bitter election campaign in Australian history...
...strafing runs over the palace, the majors negotiated a deal: surrender of power in exchange for safe-conduct passage for themselves and their families to Thailand. Among those who promptly applied for political asylum in the U.S. and Pakistan was Lieut. Colonel Sayed Farook Rahman, instigator of the August coup...