Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin American revolution. Publishers from as far away as India flocked to La Paz, where the government had locked up the diary in a safe, to negotiate for the rights to print it. Last week Fidel Castro, Che's longtime comrade-in-arms and boss, pulled a publishing coup on all of them. He presented Che's diary to the world from Havana...
Castro, who wrote a 7,000-word introduction to the diary, was a bit vague when it came to explaining his propaganda coup. "The way that the diary came into our hands cannot be divulged at the moment," he wrote. "It is enough to say that it required no monetary remuneration." Actually, several copies of the diary have been around for the stealing or buying. At least one copy each had been photographed for Bolivian President Rene Barrientos, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and several Bolivian military brass. In addition, two U.S. journalists were allowed to transcribe many...
When he led the military coup that overthrew the constitutionally elected government of Greece 15 months ago, Colonel George Papadopoulos showed no regard for legal niceties. Backed by 300 or so young officers, he scrapped Greece's constitution and jailed scores of members of the Greek Parliament, most of whom have since been released. Last week, in an ironic turnabout, Papadopoulos tried to persuade some of the young officers who brought him to power to agree to make public a new constitution for Greece. So far, Papadopoulos, who is now Greece's junta-appointed Premier, has twice been...
...dozen or so hardliners, whose most influential member is Colonel loannis Ladas, the chief of Greece's internal security system. The hard-liners are ardently antiCommunist, antiRoyalist and in favor of a state of "continued revolution" to purge Greece of its "imperfections." In the first months after the coup, Papadopoulos placed a number of the hard-liners in various important ministries. Though they held a second-rank title of secretary-general, they actually told the ministers what to do. But as Papadopoulos consolidated his own power and turned in his own uniform for civilian clothes, he relied less...
Moscow is facing up to family problems. Russia's rulers have never quite been able to decide what role the family should play in their master plan for the ideal state. Marx defined the family as "antiquated" and predicted that it would vanish along with capitalism; the Bolshevik coup in 1917 thus brought casual mating and divorce, and a brief fling at free love. The man who stopped it was that formidable patriarch Joseph Stalin, who proclaimed that the family was "the basic cell of society" and put himself on the side of old-fashioned peasant virtue. But even...