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...claimed responsibility for the police killings, but the initial bloody attacks of the week, including that against the Communist lawyers, were evidently the work of right-wing extremists. Said one Western analyst in Madrid: "The ultras on the right want to provoke the military into a coup d'etat in order to save Spain from the 20th century." There was no indication that any such extreme solution was at hand. But the outburst of violence posed the most serious sabotage threat yet to Spain's step-by-step transition under King Juan Carlos from dictatorship to representative democracy...
...week's end new details of the incident began to circulate. According to informed East European sources, Chiang Ch'ing had tried, even before the death of Mao, to persuade Peking Regional Military Commander Ch'en Hsi-lien to help her organize a coup d'etat, but Ch'en went and informed Hua of the danger. Another story from Peking claimed that Mao's scheming widow had even launched an abortive attempt to assassinate Hua. Whether these rumors are true, or simply lies leaked by the moderates to justify a pre-emptive move...
Martinez Soler says he is "rationally optimistic, by looking at objective facts" about the future of civil liberties and freedoms in Spain, but "emotionally, I have a tragic premonition that there will be another coup d'etat and dictatorship...
...commentary, and cultural racism, which results in a meaningless comic portrait of a genocidal dictator. A Swiss director, Barbet Schroeder, took a crew to Uganda in 1974, after having received express permission to do a film portrait of the Ugandan President, who had assumed power in a coup d'etat...
...horror of life in Uganda since Amin's ascendancy. In an article on "Amin's Butchery", in last week's New York Review of Books, David Martin cites the report of Edward Rugumayo, Amin's first minister of education, who fled the country two years after the coup d'etat...