Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crises seemed to sprout like weeds while Chou was on the continent-Zanzibar's government fell in a bloody coup; the armies of Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda mutinied; poison arrows began flying in the Congo. And although he claimed no responsibility for the flare-ups ("We Chinese are often surprised by compliments we do not deserve," he quipped dryly in Somalia), many Africans found it hard to swallow such a spate of coincidences. Whether he was guilty or not, they were glad to see Chou out of Africa...
Then early last week, McNamara told the House Armed Services Committee that the post-Diem junta was not doing too well, either. The Viet Cong "have made considerable progress since the coup," he said, and the U.S. has "no alternative other than to take all necessary measures within our capability to prevent a Communist victory." Later McNamara "clarified" his statement by explaining that what he had really tried to say was that "there has been a noticeable improvement" in the war. "I'm encouraged," he added, "by the progress of the last two weeks." Next day the coup took...
...quietly been offering its "cordial cooperation" in uniting North and South Viet Nam under a neutralist government free of "foreign influence," meaning free of U.S. influence. French agents moved with proposals between Hanoi and Saigon until a jittery anti-neutralist general, Nguyen Khanh, last week staged a bloodless coup against the military junta ruling South Viet Nam on the grounds that its members were being seduced by French offers...
Thus, only three months after the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Big Minh's regime was itself overturned in a bloodless coup that was so well planned and unexpected that most Saigon citizens first heard of it from a government broadcast 16 hours later. Arrested with Minh were Commander in Chief General Tran Van Don; General Le Van Kim, chief of the joint general staff; Interior Minister General Ton That Dinh; and National Police Chief General Mai Huu Xuan...
...when at the age of twelve he thrust a cumbersome Edison machine under Teddy Roosevelt's mustache and begged him to speak. In his oddly manful squeak, T.R. advised all boykind: "Don't flinch, don't foul and hit the line hard!" With that coup, Vincent began recording every sound in sight. After Yale ('22), he spent ten years working for Edison himself, eventually inherited a voxologist's gold mine-Edison's own early wax cylinders...