Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While General Anev's men occupied the capital's key bridges, communication centers and the airport, other plotters-supposedly to be led by Todorov-Gorunya-were to invade the Central Committee and arrest the eleven-man Politburo-including Zhivkov. But Soviet counterespionage agents got wind of the coup just in time...
...drive to appear right went to ludicrous lengths. The morning of November 1 the embassy reported to Washington a coup would occur that afternoon by that the military intelligence did not agree. The coup occurred. Later in the afternoon an officer called the embassy and asked that the military statement of dissent be stricken. As Halberstam notes in another context, Westerners are very sensitive about losing face...
...Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith, busy developing a political hammer lock to keep some 250,000 whites in power over the nation's 4,000,000 blacks, insists that what he is about is "responsible democracy." Pakistan's Ayub Khan had no sooner seized power in a military coup d'état seven years ago than he set his nation upon the arbitrary road of "basic democracy...
...soon as the other unions heard of Powers' coup, they cried foul. They had been made to look like weaklings beside the Big Six, and now they too wanted every bit as much as the printers. By week's end, they...
...South Viet Nam of the novel is governed by "President Cung," who is the double of the late Ngo Dinh Diem; an army coup against him is brewing. It is Amberley's job to bring the fiercely independent Cung and his policies under U.S. control or, failing that, to back the army coup. After open negotiations and private appeals with an obbligato of CIA skulduggery, Amberley does fail with President Cung; the coup does take place exactly along the lines of the one that deposed and murdered Diem...