Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colorless Senate leader who was interim President in Mrs. Perón's absence, is not likely to be confused with Winston Churchill. But Luder is seen as the best alternative to a possible military takeover. "I can't tell you there won't be a coup," said a leading radical Senator last week. "But I think the chances for avoiding one would be much better with Luder than with...
...times the total amount that the lagoon port could handle in a year even without other cargo to unload. Because of the chemical makeup of the cement, much of it may not be usable for building after six months. Last week Brigadier Murtala Mohammed, who ousted Gowon in a coup last July, ordered an official inquiry to see whether the cement purchase was made to "sabotage the economy through a deliberate embarrassment of riches...
...Coup d'Etat in America, the fruit of these labors, is based on the work of Warren Commission critics from Mark Lane onward showing that the Commission Report fails to explain the assassination and is contradicted by much of the evidence. Assuming along with the majority of the American public that the lone assassin theory is nonsense, Canfield and Weberman set out to provide an alternative theory which accounts for all the evidence and provides a motive for the assassination, the most conspicuous gap in the Warren Report...
...most important new information in Coup d'Etat comes from the analysis of the "tramp photographs" Dick Gregory made famous. The Book Depository from which Kennedy was shot adjoins a railroad yard where three tramps were apprehended in an apparently locked boxcar just after the assassination. Photographs of these tramps, who were arrested, and then released on FBI orders, show that one of the tramps looks very much like Hunt, another like fellow Watergater Frank Sturgis, and the third like Oswald. Canfield and Weberman show convincingly through height and feature comparison that two of the tramps really are Hunt...
Despite its lapses into obsessive speculations about connections between irrelevant figures and dubious arguments by analogy of modus operandi, Coup d'Etat is a chillingly convincing book. Canfield and Weberman document their assertions scrupulously, displaying a total command of both the voluminous Warren Commission papers and the assassination literature. Their theory explains the assassination coherently and fits all the known facts better than any other. The portrait of the CIA that emerges from this book, coupled with the revelations of Marchetti, Agee, and company, presents the agency as an invisible government, acting independently at home and abroad, affiliated with factions...