Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turning point in Bosch's popularity, Darrow said, came when he attempted to expropriate the property of former dictator Rafael Trujillo without recourse to the courts, which were controlled by the opposition party. It was inevitable from the time of an attempted coup in July that Bosch would fall, claimed Darrow...
...alternative courses of action the U.S. might pursue to protect its costly stake in the war effort, taking into account the threat of a massive Buddhist uprising against Diem. Lodge was asked for his comments. Importantly, several of the courses of action included the possibility of a U.S.-backed coup to depose President Diem; more importantly, the message was not shown (as it should have been) to a Pentagon official high enough to understand its explosive implications. If it had been, it probably never would have left Washington...
...significant. He was shaken by the hue and cry that erupted last week when word of the cable's existence leaked from the Pentagon to the New York Herald Tribune. Said West Pointer Hilsman: "We've never tried to pull strings on puppets or go for a coup d'etat. The U.S. can't do this. If we ever pulled it, the Communists, who charge the Vietnamese with being puppets of the U.S., would be proved right and we would lose...
...coup against Villeda, an ardent supporter of the Alliance for Progress program, was staged just 10 days before a national presidential election had been scheduled...
Broadcast over the Baghdad and Damascus radios, the statement claimed that the agreement signed in Cairo last April promised collective leadership but that Nasser, to preserve his "dictatorial existence," had tried to grab control of the new union-even inciting the "criminal" July 18 abortive coup in Syria, which was crushed at a cost of scores of dead. Calling themselves the true leaders of Arab federation, the Baathists declared that Egypt was still welcome to join, urged "popular forces in the Egyptian region" to indulge in an "upsurge and smashing of barriers in order to join with the other revolutionary...