Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third time in five months, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was in South Viet Nam to see what should-or could-be done about that frustrating, dragging war. This trip was the result of a new and disturbing series of events-the second coup in Saigon; De Gaulle's "neutralist" lures; terrorism by the Communist Viet Cong against Americans; the inability so far of South Viet Nam's latest strongman, 36-year-old General Nguyen Khanh, to get the government on the offensive...
...months testify that Africa is still a continent of chaos and contradiction. Since the year began, crises have erupted at a rate of one a week, and it seems that in the alphabet of independent Africa, A is for anarchy, B is for bedlam, and C is for coup...
...Fragile Societies. Zanzibar's month-old government fell to a savage anti-Arab coup. A flash fire of mutinies singed the wings of three fledgling East African nations. Border warfare exploded between Ethiopa and Somalia...
...four-year history. In the Sudan, black secessionists battled the Arab government of Dictator Ibrahim Abboud. And last week, in Gabon, mobs hurled stones and bottles at the French troops who had restored bold, autocratic President Leon Mba to power last month after an abortive, 42-hour coup...
...group of politicians and trade union leaders including an Area Commissioner who had been a long-time TANU stalwart, had begun conspiring with the ringleaders of the mutiny to bring about a real overthrow of the government. They planned to initiate a general strike on Saturday, followed by a coup on the following Monday in which, it was rumoured, Nyerere and his ministers would be removed...