Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another coup came in a full-page ad in the London Times of June 9, 1960. It read in part: "'A Hurricane of Common Sense´--that was the headline in a newspaper read by the leaders of Washington. It refers to the manifesto Ideology and Co-existence ... It puts squarely to the modern world the choice--Moral Re-Armamnet or Communism...
...Bolsheviks to take over all the main government buildings in Petrograd. Kerensky's government was besieged in the Winter Palace. When it refused to surrender, the cruiser Aurora fired a warning blank, the palace was stormed, and the Cabinet arrested-save for Kerensky, who managed to escape. The coup d'état was complete in Petrograd; democracy in Russia had been executed by Communist hands...
...crackdown ended-once and for all-the delicate truce organized by Onganía and the unions shortly after he seized power in a coup last year. Under the truce, Onganía had promised that the government would keep out of the unions if the unions kept out of politics. Onganía also promised to hold down the country's soaring cost of living (up 30% in 1966) and to impose some belt tightening and other much needed reforms on the country. To give his program some grandeur, he even borrowed Charles de Gaulle's slogan...
...Boom. The prime force in Korea's resurgence is President Park, the taciturn ex-army general who seized power in a 1961 coup, then went public two years later and held elections, squeezing into office by 156,000 votes, out of 11 million cast (in a population of 27 million). Going to work on the country's feeble economy, Park devalued Korea's inflated currency, lured new investment with tax concessions and low-wage labor and started a five-year development plan. To help pay the bills, Park even ignored virulent anti-Japanese feelings in Korea...
Prudential President Orville E. Beal beamed over the coup, while Metropolitan's Fitzhugh was understandably rueful. "We wish we had stayed in first place," he said. "When you've been first at anything for a number of years, you don't like to be second." Fitzhugh's company is at least still first in another important measure of the industry. It has $130 billion worth of insurance in force, more than Prudential's $121.7 billion and double the total for third place Equitable Life Assurance...