Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite a surprise to a lot of people, and more details are bound to come out in the future. Daniels, for one, who called the liaison "nothing shameful" and "the beautiful affair of a great lady and a gentleman," intimated that he is considering following up his coup with a full-length account of "one of the great love stories of American history...
Azikiwe was overthrown as President in last January's military coup, but Nigerians last week had ample cause to recall his warning. Another coup had just rocked the nation, and as the details began to emerge, they confirmed the fears that Nigeria, traditionally torn by regional rivalries (see map), had gone through another violent tribal uprising. As a nation, in fact, Nigeria seemed perilously near disintegration...
...latest uprising was the work of Northern Moslems, acting to avenge the Southern-led January coup that had thrown them out of power and killed many of their leaders. It was also designed to forestall another coup, which dissatisfied Southern Ibos had reportedly been plotting against the regime they had put in power. The Southern gripe was simple: Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, an Ibo himself, had proved too soft on the Northerners...
Panic in Lagos. The coup was a bloody affair. In the Western regional capital of Ibadan, where Ironsi had gone to plead for national unity before a meeting of tribal chiefs and emirs, Northern officers kidnaped him from the governor's palace and ordered him at gunpoint into a military Land Rover; his body was reportedly discovered last week outside a nearby village. At the army barracks at Ikeja, near the Lagos international airport, Northerners shot down every Ibo officer they could find, pursued others through Lagos itself, causing widespread panic in the capital; after one shooting incident, dozens...
...people eat mice and provide entertainment for the sadistic secret police. His army and his oilfields are controlled by the British, but the British legate is a bumfembedded chargé, and his aides are tired old faggots and redbrick rejects. The Russians infiltrate, the colonels plot, the inevitable coup transpires in a scarlet smear of violence. The story falters in its final pages, but Mossman never relents his graceful ridicule ("The Russian delegation in their square-rigged tunics and striped trousers arrived at the palace, looking like a band that has lost its instruments"). Nor does he abate his unseemly...