Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Coup. The Kennedys are nothing if not political-minded-and their approach to civil rights has been essentially political. During the 1960 campaign, they asked themselves not what a Kennedy Administration could do for the Negroes, but what the Negroes could do for John F. Kennedy on Election Day. In wooing Negro voters, Jack promised that there would be "much" new civil rights legislation, that he would end discrimination in housing with a "stroke of the pen." A few weeks before Election Day, the Kennedys brought off a political coup by intervening when Martin Luther King was jailed...
...APRA vote have been taken over by far-leftists, who have no liking for APRA's anti-Communist platform; other voters are weary of APRA's never-ending feud with Peru's army, question the wisdom of supporting a party that might well trigger another military coup...
Last week Britons could talk of little else but a cool little coup in which four men swiped a half-ton of gold from a financial-district bullion warehouse in the lunch hour. After tying up a watchman, the villains nonchalantly lugged forty 27-lb. gold bars-worth $560,000 -across a sidewalk into a blue delivery van, then made a clean getaway despite a traffic-stopping dash the wrong way on a one-way street. Hoping to keep the culprits from leaving the country, Scotland Yard posted men at every airfield and seaport in Britain. Flying-squad officers checked...
...bitter title: "The McNamara Monarchy. " Wrote Baldwin: "The 'unification' of the armed services sponsored by McNamara poses some subtle and insidious dangers-creeping dangers . . . that could present, in their ultimate form, almost as great a threat to a secure and free nation as an attempted military coup." In a column distributed to newspapers last month and then ordered killed by the Times News Service before publication, Baldwin said: "Weariness, mistrust, recrimination and mutual suspicion, particularly between many of the top civilian and military officials, prevail" in the Pentagon. Uniformed personnel feel, he said, that "top civilians...
...subject was the slow pace of government reform under Premier Ismet Inonu. To speed things up, Aydemir, 43, a tough ex-artillery officer, suggested that the lads support him in an armed rebellion against the shaky Inonu regime. But everyone flunked the final exam in Insurrection I-an abortive coup led by Aydemir in February 1962 that fizzled out in six hours. Teacher lost his job and his uniform, and the cadets were disciplined. Undaunted, former Colonel Aydemir, some 200 other ex-army officers and about 300 cadets last week tried Insurrection II; they flunked again...