Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spectacular as it was, the clash over central Laos last week was more important for what it revealed. U.S. officials have long said that the possibility of hitting Communist supply lines in Laos was only under study. In fact, after last month's "demi-coup" in South Viet Nam, the U.S. loudly announced that discussions about expanding the war had been suspended. Now it is known that Washington has "-" been carrying out air strikes in Laos since last year-a significant escalation of the anti-Communist struggle in Indo-China...
...fact is largely playing his own game in the Middle East with Russian marbles. Cairo is caught in a serious financial squeeze that shut down stock exchanges last week, endangers Nasser's ability to pay his ruble debts or his other borrowings. In strife-torn Yemen and coup-prone Syria, Russian aid has been largely dissipated in a sea of domestic troubles, but Syria has obliged by going markedly Socialist (see following story'). Iraq used Soviet weapons to dispose of Moscow's man Kassem. Pro-Western Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whose oil revenues make...
When Radio Damascus plays martial music, interspersed with ringing slogans, Syrian businessmen begin to wince. It usually means a coup d'état or a government crackdown...
...martial music began one night at 11:30 and the first slogan was: "1965 shall witness fundamental developments in strengthening the foundations of the regime!" That seemed to rule out a coup. At 1:30 a.m. the radio came clean: the announcer read off four new decrees that will take Syria's wobbly Baath (Renaissance) socialist government far down the Marxist road and virtually wipe out private ownership of Syria's major industries...
Even if Barrientos really had something to fear in the way of a coup, there was also plenty of political ploy in his reaction. His junta is expected to call presidential elections in another six to nine months, and Barrientos is running hard for the top job. Widely popular within the military and among the peasants, he spends almost as much time on the stump as he does behind his desk. Nothing suits him so much as jumping behind the controls of an air force DC-3 and flying off to some remote pocket of the Andean country to shake...