Word: etats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
Kanza was appointed delegate to the United Nations last June and retained his post in September despite Kasavubu's seizure of power and Mobutu's subsequent coup d'etat...
Comparing the Algerian situation now to that of two years ago, at the time of the Algerian coup d'etat that brought de Gaulle and the Fifth Republic to power, Aron maintained that the solution would have been easier then. In 1958 de Gaulle had greater authority and support, and the FLN had not yet made any commitments to the Soviet bloc, Aron noted. The rebel guerillas have received small supplies of arms from Communist countries...
Ranged against Kong Le and Prince Souvanna was ex-Defense Minister Gen eral Phoumi Nosavan, 40, whose hastily organized "Committee Against the Coup d'Etat" still holds the royal seat of Luang-prabang and is apparently keeping the King under something close to house arrest. Last week, after a quick trip to Thailand, whose strongly anti-Communist government loudly distrusts Kong Le & Co., General Phoumi turned up in the southern Laotian town of Savannakhet with a brand-new radio transmitter and a vow to chase Kong Le out of the capital...