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...Clerides is able to write provisions for a strong central government into the new Cypriot constitution, the Turks may have Archbishop Makarios to contend with. Makarios was overthrown as president of Cyprus in a coup d'etat shortly before the Turkish invasion last summer...
...believe that nationalist forces of The Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) have an upper hand in the armed conflict with the Portuguese. This is an aspect of the Portuguese-African relations Lisbon tried to conceal during the first few days following the April 25th coup d'etat. Yet hardly a month after the overthrow of the Caetano regime Antonio de Almeida Santos, a member of the provisional government set up after the coup and a minister in charge of Portugal's overseas colonies, as reported in The New York Times of May 23, conceded that "there...
...international public opinion, deceived by the Nixon administration's propaganda, began by reacting moderately to the criminal coup d'etat of March 18 which the CIA had fomented to destroy an independent, peaceful and neutral Cambodia, the armed invasion with its attendant grief and destruction gave the world the most flagrant proof of the true nature of American imperialism and its participation in the coup...
...decide whether they are more bored by Canada or South America. The colonial origins of the United States are still reflected in a cultural inferiority complex that carries over into politics. A cabinet reshuffle in a western European democracy gets more attention in the press than a coup d'etat in Central America; the lingering death throes of a Scandinavian king consistently merits more attention than the demise of an el Presidente. The Monroe Doctrine took care of Latin America once and for all; we haven't had to think about it since. As Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes...
...despair of N.C. State's 1972-3 exile, when Norm Sloan's roundballers racked up a 27-0 campaign (but could not play in port-season tournaments because of recruiting violations), turned into exultation when a three-day weekend coup d'etat went without a hitch in Greensboro...