Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shore up the republic's first post-Trujillo constitutional President, Juan Bosch. In the end, it was Bosch who blew it. Martin pictures him as a suspicious and erratic tropical, whose Machiavellian intrigues and "very real failures to meet the people's needs" invited the military coup that set the stage for the 1965 crisis...
...sparked by a Queens milkman whose nickname is "Nathan Hale," a Long Island land scape artist, and a 40-year-old Danbury State Teachers College sophomore. All belonged to the Minutemen, a hyper-patriotic organization whose members covertly train themselves in guerrilla warfare against the day when a Communist coup takes over the U.S. Not content to wait for the revolution, the Sunday warriors aimed last week to destroy three rustic, rundown camps that at one time or another had been used for left-wing or pacifist meetings...
...bound for a conference of African foreign ministers in Ethiopia. Apparently they were not aware that an interim stop would put them down briefly at Accra, capital of Ghana. Otherwise, they might have traveled another route. After all, since last February, when Kwame Nkrumah was ousted by a military coup and took refuge in Guinea, the two nations have been the bitterest of enemies...
...room, then whisked aboard a waiting bus for the surprise flight with Johnson to Cam Ranh Bay in South Viet Nam. No one was allowed to leave for supplies, and Sidey's typewriter was one of the few at hand. Saigon Bureau Chief Simmons Fentress scored a coup...
...mailed fist had put the government's house in order, and he chivalrously handed power back to a re-elected U Nu. Once again, U Nu proved too retiring for the task, and in 1962 Ne Win took over again, this time by outright coup. The general has been giving the orders solo ever since, while U Nu has languished in a military rest camp near Rangoon...