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Since 1964, the Sudan's regime has been dangerously weak but relatively democratic-unlike the militant dictatorships so common in the Arab World. Last week, at the beginning of the season of blazing desert heat, the Sudan's moderate but often corrupt civilian leaders were overthrown in a coup that was brought off with the suddenness of a Khartoum haboob. In the early morning, telephone and cable lines were cut, troop carriers rolled across the White Nile bridge and along Palace Avenue. Tanks took up positions at the front gates of the Republican Palace, built on the site...
...differences actually exist or not, the regime is still putting up a tough facade. In a meeting with his military leaders, Ho Chi Minh last week declared that peace will come "only when all American aggressor troops are completely swept out of our country and the puppet traitors are overthrown." Added Ho: "I look forward to hearing of great and glorious new victories against the enemy." It is bellicose talk, but no American analyst could say for certain whether Ho really meant it-or whether it was only rhetoric intended to strengthen the Communists' bargaining position before they enter...
...death left the government in confusion. Vice President Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, 43, hurried to Quemado Palace at the news -and was denied admission by guards who did not recognize him. "Let him in," barked an officer. "He is the President." Army Chief Alfredo Ovando, who with Barrientos had overthrown Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1964 (Barrientos won an election in 1966), was in Washington on a visit. The U.S. Air Force immediately offered him a C140 jet to fly home quickly. While Siles and Ovando and other dignitaries escorted Barrientos' body to La Paz Cathedral, Bolivians mourning the past...
...TIME Essay "The Danger of Playing at Revolution" [March 28] was thoughtful and incisive but irrelevant. It is, of course, absurd to believe that the U.S. Government can be actively overthrown by any combination of New Leftists, Yippies or Black Panthers. But your Essay considers only the classical type of revolution of the French or Russian variety. Certainly other kinds are possible-not only possible but apparently inevitable...
...conflict between Peru and the U.S. revolves around a Standard Oil of New Jersey subsidiary, the International Petroleum Co., which has been pumping oil out of Peruvian soil since 1924. Last October, only six days after they had overthrown President Fernando Belaúnde, Peru's new military masters seized IPC's property. Under the 1962 Hickenlooper Amendment, the U.S. is obliged to halt foreign aid and preferential-trade deals with any country that expropriates American property without making adequate compensation. Under Hickenlooper, the cutoff must take place six months after the seizure unless "meaningful" negotiations...