Word: etat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Cubism "came out of" Demoiselles, for the raggedness, fury and inconsistencies of the canvas were alien to the spirit of calm inquiry that afterward pervaded Cubist painting. But Demoiselles was so extreme that it presented the artists in Picasso's circle with a coup d'etat against every visual convention they knew. It was a totally radical painting-so much so, indeed, that even Picasso withdrew slightly from it, and for the next several years worked to stabilize the buckling planes and shallow space in such magnificent canvases as After the Ball (18) and Still Life with...
...assurance, given at a press conference two weeks ago, that U.S. aid would not be affected by Thieu's version of a one-man, one-vote election. The U.S. embassy also passed word among South Vietnamese generals last week that any attempt at a coup d'etat would bring an end to American support. That support, and South Viet Nam's need for it, was visibly demonstrated last week, when U.S. fighter-bombers launched heavy air attacks across the DMZ for five straight days...
...dinner interview with foreign correspondents, Thieu confidently discounted Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's threats of a coup d'etat against his government. Although Ky himself was now silent, he did dispatch an aide to Washington to urge that the Nixon Administration cut off economic and military aid to force postponement of the one-man presidential race. U.S. diplomats in Saigon settled into a quiet cynicism over the no-contest race...
there is one point that Mr. Papandreou has made else-where which deserves restatement in this light. That is, roughly, that the coup d'etat might have been averted in the first hours-resistance might have taken place-if they (the Papandreou government) had organized the people. That, in effect, the Resistance movement's efforts today are in lieu of the mobilization of the masses that should have begun before the coup...
...Benghazi meeting, he decided to form a new Union of Arab Republics composed of Egypt, Libya and Syria. The members will be pledged to joint defense and will also have the right to intervene in the affairs of the other states to prevent a coup d'etat. The three nations and their 42 million people are ultimately supposed to have one President, one flag, one military command and, of course, one enemy: Israel...