Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coup was not aimed at Ydigoras-one of Central America's stoutest anti-Castro fighters, though weakened by a corrupt and ineffective regime at home. It was, instead, designed to prevent the comeback of a man cordially hated both by Ydigoras and his soldiers: Juan José Arévalo, 58, President of Guatemala from 1945 to 1951, an anti-Yankee (The Shark and the Sardines) leftist who permitted Communists in his government. Living in exile in Mexico City, Arévalo promised to return to Guatemala on March 31, install himself as a presidential candidate in next November...
...morning early this month, a phone shrilled in the small office off the bedroom of Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Already awake, he lifted the receiver to hear exciting news: a military coup had just been launched against the anti-Nasser government of Syria. The phone rang again. It was the Minister of Culture and National Guidance. How should Radio Cairo handle the Syrian crisis? Support the rebels, snapped Nasser...
Limb from Limb. Since the Syrian coup was both swift and successful, Nasser's nerves and the Egyptian army were not put to the test. Israel alerted its border defenses but made no further move. On the surface, in fact, the Syrian affair was much milder and less bloody than most Arab revolts. In the past 15 years, the Middle East has been continually shaken like a kaleidoscope, constantly falling into new patterns. There have been two sizable wars and fully two dozen armed uprisings and rebellions. Premiers and princes have been torn limb from limb by street mobs...
...junta in retaining power in the hands of the army. But he could not bow to the clamoring civilians, or even to the pressure applied from Washington by U.S. Ambassador Samuel Berger last week. For if he reversed himself yet another time to support the civilians, a military coup might well topple him overnight...
Certainly, there is more stability. Only in Argentina did a constitutional government fall last year by military coup-and the army there now promises to hold elections this June. Peru's rejuggled junta is also steadfast in its election promises. Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt seems destined to become that nation's first freely elected President to serve a full term. And the Dominican Republic has held its first free election in 38 years...