Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overcharging tarts and mercenary French petite bourgeoisie. Kerouac is an engaging fellow. Brave, too. At one point, he undertook to explain to goggle-eyed Parisians that he speaks purer French than they, because "I roll my r's on my tongue and not in my throat." For that coup alone he deserves a barony...
When the 1964 Brazilian military coup ousted Leftist Joao Goulart and installed President Humberto Castello Branco, one of the country's most desperate needs was an infusion of private foreign capital. Goulart's free-spending ways had so fanned chronic inflation that the annual increase in the cost of living was nearly 150%. Foreign investors had started paring their spending plans. Many companies had contemplated shutting down and forgetting the whole thing; one, International Harves ter, did just that. Now, only 21 years later, a dramatic reversal is under...
...Coups have become the rule rather than the exception in populous Nigeria, which is divided into four rival regions and torn by tribal competition. In 1966 alone, two rulers have been murdered, along with countless of their countrymen, in bloody riots and slaughters. When Army Boss Yakubu Gowon, 31, seized power in July in the last coup, he promised that his military government would quickly "fade away," presumably without the necessity of another coup. Last week Gowon announced that he had changed his mind, at least for now, and that he personally would draft a new constitution for Nigeria...
...through the plotless wanderings of the Peasant Cantata looking as if they belong there, and it means dramatizing John Lennon's wonderful language without distorting it beyond recognition. And -- considering that he snuck this ambitious premiere into a House dining room -- director Ken McBain has managed something of a coup...
When he succeeded in a military coup last June, General Juan Carlos Ongania's prize was a government with a budget deficit of about $800 million. He won possession of a national oil company so overburdened with incompetent politicians that Argentina was importing the fuel for the first time in a decade. He was boss of government-owned railroads with so much obsolete equipment and featherbedding that they were costing taxpayers $1,000,000 a day. Also in the package was a seaport complex that had been idled by strikes for a total of 85 days the year before...