Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador, sending not only American weapons but military training personnel. If that help enables the junta to prevail, the U.S. would indeed have broken a string of American setbacks and Communist successes. But if the junta should fall, either to the leftist guerrillas or -equally bad-to a coup by rightists misusing American aid, Washington would suffer an unnecessary setback round the world. The European allies and several friendly Latin American regimes, which agree with the goal of stopping the arms flow, might be confirmed in a budding suspicion that Washington is being ineffectively militaristic. Why is the Administration taking...
...Dictator Francisco Franco. Never in postwar memory had the democratically elected parliament of any Western nation been subjected to such an outrage. To many Spaniards the brazen act was all too reminiscent of Franco's own assault on a fragile Spanish republic in 1936; that coup had triggered a bloody three-year civil war and ushered in 40 years of dictatorship. Would his diehard followers now bathe the Cortes in bloodshed and perhaps again bury Spanish democracy beneath military authoritarianism? As it turned out, the outcome was perilously close. But the personal courage and democratic commitment of King Juan...
Shocked and sobered by the attempted coup, the country's political leaders sought to put aside some of their differences. They returned to the pock-marked chamber the following day and elected Calvo-Sotelo their new Prime Minister by an absolute 186-158 majority. That was 16 more votes than Calvo-Sotelo had expected to get in the earlier, rudely interrupted balloting. The Deputies also gave standing ovations to Suárez and Gutiérrez Mellado, both of whom had courageously stood up to Tejero. But the loudest applause was reserved for the King, who was praised...
...they could do that once the unifying emergency passed remained to be seen. The dangerous issues of Basque separatism, terrorism and police repression-all of which figured in the military contempt for democracy-continued to haunt the country. Still unanswered was the most critical question of all: Was the coup attempt a kind of last gasp of the old order-or the first threat of its possible renewal...
...central government in Madrid. Under Franco, it became part of the dictatorship's apparatus of repression. For many Spaniards, the gray-green uniform and the black patent-leather cap remain symbols of reaction and oppression. Thus hardly anyone in Spain was surprised last week when the coup attempt turned out to be spearheaded by men from the corps's traffic division...