Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Cairo has not attempted to overthrow whenever [that regime] showed signs of insubordination or refused to remain in the Egyptian orbit," and Bourguiba ticked off names and dates from Jordan in 1955 to his own country in 1959. To Nasser's further embarrassment, last week a Nasserite coup was staged in Iraq and failed abjectly (see below...
...Middle East has seen just about every sort of coup, from ordinary coups d'état to incredibly swift coups de Jarnac.* But last week Iraq's Premier Aref Abdel Razzak made coup history by trying to overthrow his own government...
...India the civil servants. The leaders of the two countries reflect the aphorism. Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan is a strapping six-footer who was educated at Sandhurst, fought valiantly in Burma in World War II. Before seizing control of his chaotic country in a bloodless military coup in 1958, Ayub Khan was commander in chief of Pakistan's army...
...Reminder. Sukarno also referred to the recent military coup in Algeria, and he may well have been worried by the obvious parallels. "The fall of Ben Bella," he cried, "should serve as a reminder to every leader that the moment a leader puts a distance between himself and the interests of his people he will certainly topple...
...WEWS, also owned by Scripps-Howard, operates independently of the Press, but it agreed to pass on the interview. All the WEWS that was fit to print appeared in the Press even before the film clips went on the air. Dismayed as it is by its rival's coup, the Plain Dealer is still pushing ahead with plans for covering Manry's arrival, and has arranged to send his family out in a boat to meet him. Trouble is, by week's end he had not been sighted for a few days; even the R.A.F...