Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power. Less than two months later, his fellow revolutionary, General Park Chung Hee placed him under house arrest, then clapped him into Seoul's red brick Sodaemun prison. The charges: during the early hours of the takeover. Chang had harbored subversive doubts, had mildly tried to stop the coup. For this, Chang was sentenced to hang, but the penalty was later commuted to life imprisonment...
...time it looked as if there might be a shooting match among them. War Secretary Enrique Rauch wanted to go slowly and seek a democratic means of moving against the Peronistas. But General Raúl Poggi, the tough-minded army commander in chief, who led the initial coup in March against Frondizi, insisted on a complete military takeover. Tempers flared, and Rauch phoned the Presidential Palace to say: "I'm going to throw him out with bullets." Poggi barricaded himself in the War Secretariat building, posting machine gunners at the windows and emplacing bazooka teams in the flower...
...last year, he married a girl he had met in church: Johanna Wilhelmina Schouten, whose parents emigrated from Holland. In recent years, she and their five children have bravely endured both his long absences from home and his addiction to secondhand automobiles (he owns four: a '36 Dodge coupé, a '41 Dodge pickup, a '50 Ford convertible, a '51 Chevrolet sedan...
...paper, it seemed a victory for the Nasserites. Colonel Abdel Karim Nahlawi, a ringleader of the original coup, and six of his more conservative associates were denounced for "seeking personal power" and exiled to Switzerland (each was consoled with $3,000 in expense money from the national treasury). The Damascus high command promised to rule the country with Nasser socialism, minus Nasser, and agreed to a national plebiscite on the question of reunion with Egypt and an eventual return to what was described as "clean democracy...
...including Kennedy. Declared Betancourt: "Legitimate government has been overthrown. This violent method of effecting changes in government has been an obstacle of singular importance hindering normal and progressive development and progress in Latin America. A firm stand seems to be called for so that the men who executed the coup d'état in Argentina will feel that international toleration has forsaken them...