Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorubas in the West and the clever Ibos in the East. In January 1966, five years after independence, a group led by Eastern army officers toppled the Northern-dominated regime of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and exposed the raw nerves of those ancient rivalries. Northerners countered with a coup that installed Gowon, and their pent-up fury exploded in the massacre of thousands of Ibos living in the North...
...hurricane." Suffused with Pasternak's lan guage and imagery, she sat down and wrote an extraordinary 3,200-word document that she hoped would find its way back to her children and friends in Russia. Last week it appeared in the Atlantic magazine, which, pleased with its journalistic coup, proclaimed in an ad: "The great tradition of Russian literature has a direct descendant in the daughter of Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva and Josef Stalin...
...withholding a few flashy planes and tanks -- a fact which never reached the Greek people. It is the minor hardware and spare parts that constitute the crucial part of America's $78.7 million in annual military aid. These materials must be withheld if the U.S. is to cripple the coup and demonstrate its concern for democracy to the Greek people...
...pickets marched outside the Harvard Travel Agency yesterday afternoon, urging tourists to curtail travel to Greece in protest of the recent coup by the Greek Army...
Richard Eaton, manager of the Harvard Travel Agency, said that the coup had not decreased the number of tourist bookings for Greece. "Anyway, Greece is never a very popular summer resort for our clients," he commented...