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...ministers. Borders with neighboring countries were closed, and airplanes arriving from outside were waved away. "It was almost a classical maneuver." said a Western observer admiringly. "But then the Syrians are more practiced in this than anyone else." Possibly they are; last week's military coup d'etat was the seventh in 13 years. It came six months to the day after the last, in which the army shattered Syria's link with Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt...
...commander during the heaviest fighting of the Korean war, is a bit of a hero to every South Korean, and often called "the father of the ROK army." Invited to Korea by the junta, Van Fleet briskly put his seal of approval on the generals' coup d'etat against democratically elected Premier John Chang. "The finest thing that has happened to Korea in a thousand years," declared Van Fleet...
After any military coup d'etat, the danger point comes when the zealous soldiers run out of ideas and into the hard facts of reality. It is then that they begin to quarrel and plot against one another. Last week, after only a month and a half, South Korea's military revolution was already devouring its own offspring. Out went Junta Boss Lieut. General Chang...
Huddling grimly with his close aides, General Mobutu seemed determined to prevent Gizenga's return to national influence at any cost, and suspicion rose that the 30-year-old army chief might try to grab control of the central government with a military coup d'etat to make sure his views prevailed...
...further development of this thought is in Why Spain?, a reply to Gabriel Marcel's stinging attack on Camus' play, Etat de Slege. Enslavement, metaphysical or historical, has only one answer--rebellion. And Camus is not "willing to keep silent about one reign of terror in order the better to combat another one". "The world I live in," he explains, "is loathsome to me. But I feel one with the men who suffer in it." Camus began, politically and philosophically, where his generation stopped: at despair. But in spite of and in a way because of despair, he continued...