Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night last week, 60 Laotians stealthily cast off from the Thailand shore of the Mekong River in motor-powered pirogues. They were led by General Thao Ma, 42, onetime commander of the Royal Lao Air Force, who has lived in Thai exile since his 1966 abortive attempt to overthrow the Laotian government. After disembarking at the outskirts of Vientiane, the rebels rendezvoused with about 60 more sympathizers. A coup against Laos' neutralist leader, Prince Souvanna Phouma, had begun...
Died. Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, 72, Cuban dictator and twice President between 1933 and his overthrow by Fidel Castro in 1959; of a heart attack; in Guadalmina, Spain. Born into the lower classes, Batista joined the army in 1921 and learned its inner workings by transcribing the political trials held in the regime of Gerardo Machado. In 1933 he seized control of the army and the country in a bloodless -but genuine-"sergeants' revolution." But he soon learned the lavish ways of Latin dictators: gambling and prostitution flourished in Havana while government officials built monumental bank accounts from sugar...
...beginning of the last ruinous year of the war. Himmler, who had read various horoscopes that Wulff had prepared for his aides, asked: "What do you think we should do?" Wulff insists that he replied by urging Himmler to stage a putsch, overthrow Hitler and then negotiate a peace: "Your constellations are favorable and Hitler's are bad." Himmler, lacking Wulffs confidence in the stars, equivocated...
...Yalta Conference succeed? Should he flee to the Alps? Wulff rarely tells us his answers, much less any of his reasons for them. He whines consistently about being overworked and the increasing frustrations of dealing with Himmler's entourage. He says that he continued vainly urging Himmler to overthrow Hitler, and there are moments when he actually seems to think that the replacement of one monster by another would have "brought peace and security to the world...
...funding the sale of firearms to the Irish Republican Army and Arab terrorists." Writes Flynn: "There is evidence from classified documents that transfers of large amounts of money to and from the U.S.A. are being used to establish and organize groups with the view of the overthrow of this government...