Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real need to arrange treaties, snoop for political intelligence, or seek out the details of clandestine missile sites. There is really only the social life and perhaps Bingo once a week to take one's mind off the worst threat of all-job insecurity. With every attempted coup d'état back home comes a whole new wave of replacements. In Santo Domingo last week, Provisional President Héctor García-Godoy gave his nation's foreign representatives a case in point...
With his list, the President hoped to bring some peace and calm to his turbulent, bullet-pocked nation by ridding it of some of the forces that are pulling it apart. Instead, he nearly succeeded in triggering another coup. Loyalist troops sealed off the National Palace, took the government Radio Santo Domingo "into custody"; and the ultra-right-wing Radio San Isidro-shut down since last October-suddenly switched back on the air, accusing the government of opening the way to a Communist takeover. As Jeeps and combat vehicles rumbled once again through the streets, García-Godoy moved...
Expunging PUNG. There was reason to worry. In November, his Politburo announced details of an abortive coup d'état that aimed at the murder of Sékou and the overthrow of the regime. Chief local plotter: Mamadou (Petit) Touré, a distant cousin of the President who was fired last year from the directorship of a national textile firm for embezzlement. Last week Little Touré was rumored to be under sentence of death, along with two former government ministers, an army battalion commander and a slew of petty traders - all members, apparently, of an outfit known...
...weeks, the debate raged between the opposing Baathist cliques, and being Syrians, Jadid's men naturally began plotting a coup to topple Hafez from his position as head of the powerful Presidency Council, which serves as a sort of collective chief of state. Two days before the revolt was to come off last month, the garrison commander at Horns jumped the gun by arresting three pro-Hafez officers-counting on Syria's notoriously poor telephone and telegraph communications to keep the word from reaching the capital 90 miles away. The news got back anyway, and the conspiratorial commanders...
President Johnson visits France, and all chefs in charge of cooking the state banquet resign. Lady Bird prepares instant coffee in hotel room. Communists take over Indionesia. When asked about the coup at a press conference, Sukarno laughs and pinches a lady reporter...