Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1959, Jaguaribe served as president of a steel company of joint public and private ownership. The military coup of 1964 forced him to resign last June...
...counselor in Tanzania's coastal capital of Dar es Salaam. Their conversation was, of course, being tapped. At one point they expressed mutual regret that the State Department had not sent good wishes to Zanzibar's Boss Abeid Karume on "the twelfth"-the first anniversary of the coup d'état that gave him power on Jan. 12, 1964. Carlucci explained that celebrations of the coup had been postponed because of Ramadan, the Moslem month of fasting. Answered Gordon: "Well, make sure Karume gets the message on the second twelfth...
...Tanzanian telephone tappers, this dialogue clearly meant that the U.S. was plotting an anti-Karume coup for either January or February 12. Out went Carlucci and Gordon. Wawa had won again...
...served the towering Watutsi aristocrats (some measure 7 ft. or more) as cattle-tending serfs on the alpine slopes of the former Belgian colony Ruanda-Urundi. Independence, in 1962, established a tribal equality of sorts, but both Bahutu and Watutsi quickly sought more than that. A Belgian-backed coup gave the Bahutu control of the new Rwanda government, while Burundi remained under a Watutsi king, Mwami Mwambutsa...
...crudely forged "documents" turned up last November by Tanzania Foreign Minister Oscar Kambona, which purported to show the U.S. as leagued with Portugal in a plot to overthrow Nyerere's government. A second theory was that Nyerere believed Carlucci and Gordon were behind the abortive Arab-backed coup that failed in Zanzibar last month...