Word: etat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colpo di stato, as Italians refer to a coup d'etat, had been scheduled for Dec. 8. That night nearly a thousand of his followers assembled near the Interior Ministry, nerve center of Italy's police and government communications network. They never received the go-ahead. Instead, Borghese was mysteriously warned that his ultra-rightist National Front had long since been infiltrated and the plot was known. Reluctantly Borghese agreed to cancel the coup. By way of consolation, he treated his commanders to a late spaghetti supper...
Stylianos Pattakos is the number two man in Greece. A member of the original triumvirate which took power in the coup d'etat of April 21, 1967, Pattakos is now Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior...
...Bowie claims that only two of the Center's 99 publications deal with Vietnam, Southeast Asia or counter-insurgency. Last year's titles include: 1) "Conflict Regulation in Deeply Divided Societies" (about Lebanon and Malaysia); 2) "Comparative Study of the Successful Military Coup d'Etat in Modern Polities"; 3) "Social Science Research for National Unity" (about Malaysia); 4) "Administration and Management of Communal Conflict" (about Malaysia); 5) "The Myth of the Guerrilla"; 6) "New Directions for the Banking System" (about Indonesia). These titles are from the DAS alone...
...trust and I'll start delegating authority." Apparently he never found them. Before his death, Nasser refused to groom a political heir. The resulting vacuum in leadership could lead to chaos, to a collective leadership or even to a sudden coup d'etat executed by a young unknown, just as happened 18 years...
...during this period was to facilitate the entrance of American aid into the country. This aid, part of a pact with the Pakistanis which John Foster Dulles had conceived in 1953 as an anti-Russian coalition, had the effect of strengthening the military and hastening the 1958 coup d'etat by Ayub Khan...