Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...necessary, other moderate leaders still are known to fear that an increased U.S. military presence could be counterproductive and give the guerrillas a nationalist rallying cry. They are also concerned that the U.S. anti-Communist rhetoric accompanying the aid might encourage right-wing military officers to attempt a coup...
Indonesia's hang-ups include not only wartime occupation by Japan but the more recent memory of the bloody and abortive Communist coup of 1965, which many Indonesians blame on Peking. Also, like other Southeast Asian nations, Indonesia has an economically prosperous minority of ethnic Chinese that is widely resented and mistrusted by the rest of the population. As a result, anti-Chinese sentiment is always just beneath the surface of Indonesian politics. Explains Vice President Adam Malik: "We've always seen a danger from both the Soviet Union and China. For a long time we were...
From the way Spain's political leaders were behaving, it was hard to believe that democracy had just triumphed over a carefully planned coup attempt. No profound sense of relief pervaded the nation. Instead, the briefly celebrated victory seemed to be turning sour in the realization that, far from being dispelled, the threat of another uprising by franquista military leaders persisted. So cautious was the government in dealing with rebellious elements that, only days after the 18-hour, Feb. 23 takeover of the Spanish parliament by gun-toting soldiers, one neo-fascist agitator was bold enough to declare...
...soon as the coup collapsed, "moderate" Basque separatists, fearing a subsequent and successful military takeover, announced a cease-fire and released three foreign consuls they had held hostage for eight days. But more militant guerrillas blew up a national police patrol car in the Basque town of Portugalete, injuring three policemen; a few days later they killed the police chief of Bilbao. As pressure mounted from the right to declare a state of emergency in the Basque region, Calvo-Sotelo flew to Bilbao to pay respects to the dead man's family...
...electorate. "The time has come now," said Gonzalez, "and the warning light has been lit." But, once again, Calvo-Sotelo rejected the offer, evidently out of fear that such a coalition would be too left of center for the military to tolerate. Despite the failed coup, the military's clout in Madrid remains as great as ever...