Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although the Communist Pathet Lao technically holds four seats in Souvanna's Cabinet, the Reds walked out on him two years ago, and refuse to come back. And ever since the banishment of troublemaking Rightist General Phoumi Nosavan, who was exiled in February after his third at tempted coup, the sailing has been even smoother. Other right-wing leaders have made common cause with Souvanna, and rightist troops often join General Kong Le's neutralist army in drives against the Pathet...
President Abdul Salem Aref had two reasons to be grateful last week. Not only could he thank his brother, Abdul Rahman, for putting down an attempted coup during his absence in Morocco (TIME, Sept. 24). He now basked in the blessing of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who assured Baghdad's boss that he had no connection whatsoever with the wily pro-Nasser rebels who sparked the revolt...
With that, Aref could get back to the business of running his country. To replace overzealous Premier Aref Abdel Razzak, who fled into exile when the coup failed, Aref chose Abdel Rahman Bazzaz, a political moderate linked to no party, and onetime ambassador to Egypt and Britain. In his first press conference, Bazzaz sought to mollify all segments of Iraq's traditionally unruly citizens. He told the Nasserites that his government would work for eventual "federal union" with Egypt, made businessmen happy by blasting Marxism, and tried to appeal to left-wing intellectuals by advocating non-Marxist socialism...
Within an hour, Razzak's coup was finished. He and his family were put aboard a plane and flown to Cairo where, after spending a night in Nasser's Tahra Palace, they moved into a luxury suite on the 19th floor of the Nile Hilton, next door to the suite of U.S. Film Star Charlton Heston and his family. On his way home from Casablanca, President Aref also stopped off in Cairo, perhaps to impress on Nasser the need for making haste slowly in ar ranging the eventual union of their two nations...
Bavaria's Hans Glas, which built its success on the tiny, utilitarian Goggomobil, displayed a flashy new luxury coupé that has the sleek, low lines of Italy's Lancia, does 125 m.p.h. and costs $4,500. Daimler-Benz introduced a new Mercedes, the 250 S, which still bears a strong family resemblance but is longer, lower and rounder. Italy was represented by a glittering array of high-priced Ferraris, Maseratis and Alfa Romeos as well as by the nimble, lower-priced Fiats. As always, the Rolls-Royce exhibit drew large crowds. They may have been looking...