Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Resigned Ministers. When his first coup against the Kerensky government failed, Lenin told Trotsky: "Now they will shoot us. This is the best time for it." But the government dithered, and by the time it issued an order for his arrest he was hiding in a haystack. Three months later, a second coup succeeded when the Bolsheviks stormed the Czar's Winter Palace, then the seat of the provisional government, and forced Kerensky's ministers to resign at gunpoint...
...first stage in a Communist takeover, neutralism may be just what the Viet Cong are aiming for. Some Americans believe that the new Red attacks are meant to push the Vietnamese army into carrying out a coup to set up a neutralist regime. Given the petty politicking still being waged by Vietnamese politicians six months after the U.S.-encouraged overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem,* such a prospect is not impossible. Premier Nguyen Khanh so far has had the barracks behind him, but at week's end yet another wave of coup rumors rippled through Saigon, then subsided...
...three months since its sudden, savage coup against the ruling Arab minority, once-torpid Zanzibar has become an island of fear. Bands of tough government cops, armed with Russian-supplied burp guns, prowl the land in search of "enemies of the state." Hundreds of Arabs have been marched off their property by African land-grabbers; more than 2,000 prisoners are crammed into hastily built detention camps...
...spokesmen remain resolutely optimistic-at least officially-that no new coup is in sight. The optimism is based on the fact that despite sporadic rumblings in the barracks, Khanh up to now has enjoyed the support of the bulk of the military. Perhaps the best thing that Khanh could do to preserve his position would be to become, if not precisely a strongman like Diem, at least like him in determination...
...with mixed emotions. Venezuela, though unofficially pleased over Goulart's fall and the prospect of a Brazilian break in relations with Castro, was in a quandary. How could it square recognition of Brazil with its traditional policy of nonrecognition of governments that came to power through a military coup? In Chile and Peru, some papers fretted over the possibility of a repressive military dictatorship. Washington, which was the first to greet the new regime with "warm wishes," hoped the arrests would not go too far. "Brazil needed cleaning up," said one high official, "but not a witch hunt...