Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The events that led to the Kerensky revolution and the Bolshevik coup d'etat are told in terms of the two royal Romanovs, seen as neither ogres nor icons, but as tragic simpletons...
...Dalat, a period that to this day continues to provide him with a reservoir of support among many middle-grade officers who look up to him as their teacher. His entree into politics came in December, 1962, when Diem assigned him to the command of the 5th, or Anti-Coup, Division, strategically positioned just north of Saigon. Thieu was put there because Diem did not trust the previous commander, Nguyen Due Thang, now Thieu's Minister for Revolutionary Development and one of the ablest Vietnamese officials around...
Diem's trust in Thieu was misplaced. Only eleven months later, the young colonel led one of the 5th Division's regiments in the coup against Diem. In the wake of Diem's overthrow, Thieu won his general's stars and the secretary-generalship of the junta that took over...
Financial Coup. On the West Bank, in the Gaza Strip and even on the Golan Heights, educators are preparing for September school reopening-except in the Sinai capital of El Arish, where youngsters will be let off until Oct. 1 to help with the date harvest...
Management of Moslem religious affairs is gradually being handed back to the wakf religious trust committees. And the Bank of Israel has scored a financial coup by persuading the Bank of Jordan to release funds frozen in Amman so that the West Bank's shuttered banks can reopen...