Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...especially the leftists, whose influence has worried a nation that still vividly recalls the bitter 1946-49 civil war with the Communists. The young King fired Papandreou because he believed the Premier was intriguing to neutralize even the passionately royalist Greek army. Nonetheless, his action brought savage cries of "coup d'état" in a land that still regards its 135-year-old monarchy as an imported institution, and which since 1917 has sent both Constantine's uncle and his grandfather off into exile...
...Canary Islands. To make sure that its message would not be lost on Moscow, the government gave the Soviet ambassador "friendly warning" that it would no longer provide a forum for Communist propaganda. The Algiers correspondent for France's Communist daily L'Humanite, which bitterly denounced the coup, was booted out of the country for "exaggerated" reporting. Police also closed the office of Prensa Latina, Cuba's news and propaganda agency. When Fidel Castro castigated "military despotism and counterrevolution" in Algeria, a Cuban embassy official was called in for a sharp dressing down. Just how, Foreign Minister...
...first speech since the coup, Boumedienne explained to graduating students at a gendarmerie school that the nation would no longer dabble in international revolution and intrigue. Nor, he warned, would his government tolerate the "adventurers who intruded themselves into our country" during Ben Bella's three-year rule. "Algeria," said the austere colonel, "has no need to take lessons in socialism from outside...
Treasured Army. Boumedienne's political leanings, say associates, are probably slightly to the right of Lenin-Peace-Prizewinner Ben Bella. He has already jailed several Communists who held Information Ministry posts, and the Communist newspaper Alger Republicain has not been printed since the coup. However, the Reds got their comeuppance because they supported Ben Bella. Far from being antiCommunist, Boumedienne has equipped his treasured 60,000-man army almost entirely with Soviet weapons...
...Hanoi. But we have to supply a million people-V.C. political cadres as well as soldiers. We grow our own food. We have ordnance depots in the jungle where we make weapons-crude but serviceable." Besides, as he put it, "we get stronger every time there is a coup in Saigon and more and more military men are put in jail or flee the country...