Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAST YEAR'S nearly successful coup at the Coop is beginning to yield results. Next month Coop members will have the chance to approve some long-overdue revisions in the Coop's by-laws. If at least 25 per cent of the members bother to return their ballots. the structure of the Coop can become more representative of the membership and open to future improvements...
...textbook coup. At 3 a.m., shortly before the most faithful Moslems would answer the call to early morning prayers, columns of trucks loaded with troops rolled through Tripoli, spearheaded by British-made Centurion tanks. Swiftly, soldiers surrounded army headquarters, the security police building, the Royal Palace and the national radio station. Teleprinters in the national news agency fell silent. The borders were sealed tight, and at the airports, controllers got orders to suspend all air traffic indefinitely...
Libya had long been ripe for a coup. Flanked by socialist regimes in Algeria and Egypt, the kingdom was rolling in oil wealth, but much of it was being pocketed by corrupt officials. The country was ruled by a frail and feeble old man, King Idris, 79, who had offered to abdicate five years ago but was persuaded to stay on by the Cabinet. Crown Prince Hassan Rida, 40, obviously lacked the capacity for leadership. Even so, neither foreigners nor Libyans had expected the upheaval to come before the death of Idris, who is both the father of his country...
Legalized Regime. Throughout the week, extreme secrecy was maintained, and almost no foreigners were allowed to cross the borders. Much of the coup seemed to be run by radio; an announcer would say which officials had been dismissed and which kept in office and all, amazingly, seemed to obey. Only one name was given prominence in connection with the coup-Colonel Saaduddin Abu Shweirib, who was made the army's new Chief of Staff. Shweirib, who is in his 30s, studied at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. Sacked from the army...
...junta will be content to play a caretaker role will depend not only on Costa e Silva's progress but also on the ambitions of its members. They vary considerably. Rademaker, 64, is a rigid right-winger who had helped lead the military's 1964 coup against left-leaning President Joāo Goulart, but has done little political maneuvering since. Technically, he is the senior man in the group, but he ranks an easy third in power and ambition. Souza, 63, is a hard-core rightist who is not likely to play a major political role. Lyra...