Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flatfooted dismay with which enlightened liberal opinion in this country and Britain first greeted the coup in Nigeria is no doubt due to the complexity of politics in that country. An enlightened liberal who has mastered the names of Nigeria's four regions, two electoral coalitions, four major parties (there are lots of little ones), three major tribes (not to mention six semi-major and more than 200 minor ones), and top twelve political leaders, and who has dutifully memorized the phrase "Nigeria, symbol of democracy in tropical Africa", has surely exhausted his capacities for the assimilation of detail...
...Africa, political stability is a thin veneer that can flake off with the slightest scratch of a military finger. Since mid-December, three black governments* have been toppled by military coup. For a while last week Nigeria seemed on its way to becoming the fourth. What makes Nigeria different is that it is no tiny tinhorn republic. It is the continent's most populous nation (56 million people), its economy is one of Africa's most prosperous, and-with 250 tribes and tongues-it has long been considered one of Africa's most democratic and stable countries...
What happened after that, no one could be sure. When a few radios crackled back on the air, their broadcasts were filled with conflicting reports that changed from hour to hour. According to one, a single unnamed army general from the North had launched a coup "to bring an end to gangsterism and disorder." The premiers of both the Northern and Western regions were reported assassinated, and Sir Abubakar was said to be under house arrest...
...coup against Nigerian Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa last week, leaders of 19 of the British Commonwealth's 22 nations* met in Lagos to discuss another troubled country: Rhodesia. Britain had its early misgivings about the two-day conference. It was the first such meeting ever held outside Britain, the first presided over by anyone but the British Prime Minister, the first called on the initiative of a government other than Britain, and the first with only a single-item agenda...
...York Times's stringer Donald Kirk. What riled Sukarno were widely printed reports that since the Red-backed Sept. 30 coup attempt, he has lost much of his power to the military leaders, who are effectively suppressing Indonesia's large Communist party. "I am still Supreme Commander," huffed Sukarno...