Word: etat
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...Soviet spokesperson will rapidly make clear to an inquirer, they look with anxiety to their southern borders, stretching from Turkey to a now unstable Iran to a potentially unstable Afghanistan (though, prior to the invasion, it already had a Marxist government which came to power through a coup d'etat in 1978) and to an openly hostile China. Some experts, therefore, clearly trace this invasion to Soviet concerns for their southeastern borders and the increasing belligerence with their Chinese neighbors. While Soviet officials proclaim their belief that in the long run Afghanistan must be non-aligned and neutral, they...
...have captured me," he explained in an interview following his address to a Harvard and Cambridge crowd which packed Phillips Brooks House to listen in shocked silence to his story, or rather to the story of Paraguay's ordeal since General Alfredo Stroessner took over in a coup d'etat in 1954. Despite Stroessner's stranglehold on the country, Filartiga believes he is "a slave of my people," not of the government...
Reverend Kimball mentions the "oppression and brutality (that) existed under the Shah." Did he ever meet the general (leaving out names) who had gone so far as to organize a coup d'etat against the Shah, and, after being caught, was only exiled to France for a year? After this time he returned to Teheran and never stopped his bitter criticism of the Shah, holding meetings every week at his home or the home of his co-ideologist. Strangely enough, he had to leave for Paris after the Revolution. Did Rev. Kimball meet the most revered and loved Iranian lawyer...
...closest in Jackal, with his portrayal of the man who tried to assassinate Charles De Gaulle; he failed outright in his two later novels, The Odessa File, in which Superman infiltrated a society of Nazi war criminals, and The Dogs of War, in which Superman directed a coup d'etat in a small African nation...
...Prague. After serving his profession and political conscience as a medical officer in the Spanish Civil War, with Mao Tse-tung's forces resisting Japanese aggression and, with the U.S. Army during World War II, Kriegel returned home and helped engineer the 1948 Communist coup d'etat. He then served as Deputy Minister of Health, medical adviser to Fidel Castro in Cuba, Central Committee member and, in 1968, chairman of the National Front. By then a liberal tied with the independent-minded regime of Alexander Dubcek, Kriegel and his colleagues were arrested by the Russians during...