Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convention were excruciating." Reason: typewriters are worth their weight in gold in reporter-filled Miami, but TIME'S supplier had not come through with the ordered machines. Bermingham got to work, and soon rounded up 29 typewriters. In the view of TIME writers and editors, that was a coup to match those of MacNeil and Saltonstall...
...abolished anyway under coming reforms. Nevertheless, his removal was a victory not only for the Russians but also for the conservatives in Prague whom Moscow would like to see unseat Dubček. For Prchlik was the general who had prevented a January coup by army units loyal to ex-party Boss Antonin Novotný, the Stalinist that Dubček bounced from office...
CZECHOSLOVAKIA has twice been in need of the world's help when threatened by the aggressiveness of its neighbors. Help did not come when Hitler dismembered the country in 1938 or when the Russians organized a Communist coup in 1948. Last week Czechoslovakia's 14,300,000 citizens found themselves in a desperate situation once again, faced with a massive threat to their independence from the Soviet Union and its hard-lining allies. Despite verbal pledges of support from some of its Communist neighbors and muted cheers from the West, the country knew from experience that, whatever happened...
...Coup-ridden Iraq seldom overthrows its leaders gently. In 1958, Iraqis gunned down King Feisal II and dismembered Premier Nuri as-Said's corpse. When they deposed Soldier-President Abdul Karim Kassem in 1963, the rebels tommy-gunned him, dragged his body to a television studio, then switched on the cameras to show the public the gruesome spectacle. Last week there was an other coup in Iraq, but this time it was relatively civilized...
...chance to regain power, he started meeting at his house with 13 retired officer-politicians. In April, the group presented a petition to Aref for extensive reforms, including general elections within two years. When Aref balked, Al-Bakr and his friends began meticulously to plan last week's coup. They executed it with the help of the air force and even of Arefs trusted presidential guards. There was practically no bloodshed; the only marks of battle were a few bullet holes in the palace...