Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deal with a country half occupied by Communists, half hung up on the political bickering of the antiCommunists. Souvanna has survived three major attempts to overthrow his government in the past four months, and rightist bands loyal to exiled Deputy Premier Phoumi Nosavan-in Thailand since February's coup attempt-still prowl the countryside between Paksane and Thakhek...
...rebellion by offering the malcontents "total friendship or total war." Diem offered neither. Tax col lectors, not aid officials, followed his troops into liberated villages. Suspicious of his own generals, Diem rarely committed his reserve forces to battle when needed largely because he wanted to guard against a coup...
...Desperate Surgery." Mecklin's account of the coup and of the murder of Diem and Nhu is colorful but carefully subjective-he reports only what he saw. Although he states categorically that Lodge was intent on getting rid of Diem and that he knew the coup was planned-indeed had spoken with the coup leaders-Mecklin does not charge that the U.S. Mission was directly involved...
...face of it, the ceremony last week seemed to indicate that Rene Barrientos was no longer the No. 1 man in Bolivia. Army Chief Ovando has been pressuring Barrientos to share power ever since the November coup that toppled President Victor Paz Estenssoro. But things are not always what they seem in Bolivia's dizzying Andean atmosphere. After a week of bloody revolt and political confusion, there were at least as many reasons to believe that the promotion was largely a Barrientos maneuver designed to remove his rival from active command and prepare the Bolivian army for a final...
Money & Desire. The man who bought Titus and brought it to the U.S., after a year of stalking it, is perhaps the only man in the world who could and would execute such a coup. As head of California's rapidly expanding Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc., Norton Winfred Simon is the ruler of a business complex that embraces two dozen companies in fields as diverse as publishing and steel. A comfortable millionaire?about $100 million at latest count?who grew rich primarily by canning tomato products, Simon in recent years has leaped from catsup to culture by assembling...