Word: etatism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With its freedom from police intervention, the university provided the only place in which dissident groups could meet regularly in safety. In both revolutions, student rioting provided a crystallization point for discontent with the regime, and a coup d'etat by the army followed...
...strain in the Western Alliance is forgotten as two new crises develop. Jackie Kennedy falls mysteriously ill on July 4 and on July 5 a new international emergency crupts as the Russian diplomatic corps in the Gambezi Republic stages a coup d'etat. Television cameras are moved into the Kennedy bedroom to record every stage of Jackie's illness. Meanwhile, the Gambezi U.N. delegation is flown home in U.S. transport planes to help unseat the Russians...
...referendum day approached, the opposition hardened. Ex-President Vincent Auriol now openly accused De Gaulle of "usurpation" and of asking the nation to "legalize his coups d'etat." Economic Planner Etienne Hirsch blasted De Gaulle by asking if the man who wanted to be the "supreme guide" of France had "forgotten how this translates into Italian, Spanish or German"-il Duce, el Caudillo, der Fűhrer. Opposition posters quoted the words of the late Premier Georges Clemenceau: "The cemeteries are full of indispensable...
Died. General Dusan Simovic, 80, iron-willed Yugoslav patriot who led a valiant 1941 coup d'etat that overturned the pro-Nazi regency of Prince Paul for 17 brief days just before Hitler invaded, later headed Yugoslavia's wartime exiled government in London; in seclusion in Belgrade...
...never again accept tyranny," says Premier Azmeh. "What we need is simply democracy, to meet the people's aspirations. When the people feel that their needs are being met, they will support the government wholeheartedly, and there will be no more instability and no more coups d'etat." For a man in Azmeh's situation, this is a worthy if not entirely realistic point of view...