Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aura of Hysteria. Winner in a covert internal coup that ousted longtime CORE Leader James Farmer last winter, McKissick, 44, has lately steered his civil rights outfit, a leader in the movement in the '60s, away from gradual integration toward aggressive Desegregation Now. Almost all white members and most Negro moderates have either resigned or been nudged out of national policymaking positions. Opposition to the war in Viet Nam has reached a hysteria, and CORE leaders have come close to damning any cooperation with whites-as McKissick did during his meeting with the two Baltimore officials...
...party pattern that pervades Africa these days, Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, Nigeria's strongman since last January's bloody coup that toppled Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, announced on television last week that the job of curing his country's "fatal maladies of the past" will take no less than three years...
...disguising himself as the luckless lout who is supposed to perish by black magic after Lucrezia has downed a potion brewed of mandragola, or mandrake root, and spent the night with him. Once conquered, Lucrezia cherishes the lad's do-or-die passion, ultimately scores her own sexual coup over the hypocrisy shown in the affair by her cuckolded husband, her amoral mother and a venal priest...
Today the people of the Dominican Republic will participate in what promises to be the second "free" election in their island's history. The first one, held in 1962, made Professor Juan Bosh President of the Republic. Within seven months, a military coup made him a private citizen again...
...great financial and moral support; but many Dominicans who ought to know insist that the CIA and the American military attaches were simultaneously encouraging Dominican generals to upset the Bosch government. The CIA and the attaches easily outdid the American president in this tussle, and there was indeed a coup...