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...three jet fighters and a lone helicopter flew overhead, some 300 troops backed by armored cars fanned out through the streets of La Paz last week. Another coup in a country that has seen 189 governments overthrown since its founding in 1825? Not this time. The sweep was ordered by President Hernan Siles Suazo as a twelve-day-old general strike, which had already crippled transport and commerce, threatened to push the nation into anarchy. Declared Siles: "Tolerance and patience have a limit...
...President Kennedy shrewdly appointed him Ambassador to South Viet Nam, in part to maintain Republican support for U.S. policy there. Only 13 weeks later, Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown and subsequently slain. Though various accounts linked the U.S. to the coup against the recalcitrant Diem, Lodge always maintained that he had done nothing either to "stimulate or thwart" the overthrow. Lodge resigned in 1964, took part in the presidential election campaign and then returned to Saigon, becoming involved in a peace effort that ultimately failed. He continued to field diplomatic assignments for many more years...
Conspicuously absent from the election campaign was the one person who retains much of the charisma of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the fiery and popular Prime Minister who was overthrown by Zia in 1977 and later executed (on the charge of being implicated in the murder of the father of a political opponent). That figure is Benazir Bhutto, 31, daughter of the late Prime Minister and today the acting head of her father's Pakistan People's Party. She has been in self-imposed exile in London for the past year. Pakistani police have gone to extraordinary effort...
...most of the country's 73 provinces. In parts of the southern island of Mindanao, the guerrillas have organized virtual surrogate governments. Earlier this month, Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage told the House Subcommittee for Asian and Pacific Affairs that without reforms, Marcos' regime could be overthrown by the Communists "within less than a decade...
Arias proved to be a strong opponent despite some definite handicaps of age: he is nearly blind, walks with considerable difficulty and speaks in a barely audible, hoarse whisper. His legend, however, preceded him. He has been elected President three times (in 1940, 1949 and 1968) and overthrown by the military three times. Yet people remember him for having declared Spanish the official language of Panama and for originally giving women the vote in 1941. Arias' campaign was unabashedly anti-Communist and pro-Reagan. Nonetheless, many Panamanians suspected that Arias might be overthrown again...