Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three years since Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was assassinated, the Dominican Republic has been governed by one interim President (forced to resign), one seven-man provisional Council (which held elections), one constitutional President (toppled by military coup), and one civilian triumvirate of which not a single original member remains. The last of the three men who took over administration of the unhappy little Caribbean nation ten months ago resigned last week. He was Manuel Tavares Espaillat, 40, a cultured, U.S.-educated (Yale) scholar and the only real administrator and planner in the original triumvirate. He quit because he was disgusted...
...composure, thanked the monks, returned to his packing chores. He was leaving South Viet Nam after ten months as ambassador-ten months in which monks continued to die in flames of their own setting, in which the government of South Viet Nam had twice been overturned by military coup, in which-through no fault of Lodge's-the U.S.-backed war against the Communist Viet Cong had gone from bad to worse...
Hawks & Doves. The neutralist government of Prince Souvanna Phouma, shaken severely by a right-wing coup last April, had been jolted further by a series of sharp Pathet Lao attacks that forced Kong Le off the Plain. If the precariously balanced Laotian coalition was to hold, outside help was needed. A month ago, unarmed U.S. jets began flying reconnaissance missions over Red territory in hopes of intimidating the Pathet Lao. When one of the slow-flying Navy recon planes was downed by Russian-made antiaircraft guns, the U.S. decided to send armed jet fighters to escort the reconnaissance craft. When...
...Marking the third anniversary of his military takeover in South Korea, General Chung Hee Park confessed last month that he was sorry about how things had worked out thus far. He admitted that the coup's objectives-prosperity, solving the food shortage, arresting inflation, halting corruption-had not yet been achieved, added mournfully, "I sorely regret this." Last week, after two months of .growing unrest, Park was joined in his regret by thousands of rioting students...
Actually, Souvanna's regime topples more often than it governs. It last fell last month when two rightist generals staged a bloodless coup in Vientiane...