Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Appeasement." Last week, however, seemed to be a good week for China's Communist bosses. U.S. efforts to establish a "stable" government in South Viet Nam seemed farther than ever from fruition after another ludicrous sequence of coup and countercoup. The shooting war against the Viet Cong was relatively quiet, and President Johnson, despite his recent air reprisals against North Viet Nam for attacks on Ameri can personnel, now seemed willing to let matters calm down. But at home, the cries for negotiations leading to a withdrawal from Viet Nam came to crescendo...
...years the U.S. has sought to thwart Communist--and specifically Chinese Communist--policies by maintaining a U.S.-controlled military force in Vietnam. There is little need to give a coup-by-coup account of U.S. mistakes in Southeast Asia. The past few months have revealed to nearly everyone, conservatives and liberals alike, that American military policy in South Vietnam has been a failure...
...informal caucuses held shortly after the November election the legislators expressed their support of Zaretzki and Travia. In the ensuing months a revolt began, quietly at first and then more loudly in December until on January 4, when the legislature convened, it exploded into an almost successful coup...
Lately, rumors have been going around Bogota that Ruiz Novoa was planning a coup-though he vehemently denied it. The opportunity was supposed to be a general strike called by the unions to protest a broad new sales tax. But the strike, attempted two weeks ago, fizzled completely, and Valencia used the occasion to fire his contentious war minister, charging that Ruiz Novoa's policies were splitting the armed forces. Into his place went General Gabriel Rebeiz Pizarro, 49, second man in the military hierarchy and the one who made the charges against his boss to Valencia...
...People? Few Colombians believe that they have heard the last from the ousted general. After he was cashiered, a group of officers pleaded with him to lead a coup against the government. Ruiz Novoa turned them down with a lecture on democracy. Colombia's Social Christian Democrats have offered to make him their candidate in the 1966 presidential elections, and other anti-government parties are talking of a Ruiz Novoa coalition. He has not yet chosen his political affiliation, but that is only a formality he seems certain to fulfill. Wrote the general in a letter to a friend...