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...African Unity, the Organisation Commune Africaine et Mal-gache. Even within these groups, glittering chimeras give way to the hard practicality of national interests: Zambia and Malawi, dependent as they are on good relations with neighboring, white-run Rhodesia, refuse to join the African militants who demand the bloody overthrow of Ian Smith...
French police began a nationwide search, for Ben Barka was no routine case. The founder of Morocco's leftist National Union Party, he has twice within the past two years been sentenced to death in absentia for plotting to overthrow King Hassan II. Such notoriety naturally led to speculation that political skulduggery might be involved...
...King of Burundi, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, does not take kindly to rebels. Fortnight ago, after crushing attempts to overthrow the Watutsi monarchy and kill him and his Prime Minister, the Mwami had 34 of the conspirators-all members of the Bahutu tribe-marched into the sport stadium and executed by a firing squad (TIME, Oct. 29). Another batch of Bahutu politicians was hustled off to jail on charges of complicity in the plot. Last week ten of them, including Emile Bucumi, President of the country's National Assembly, and Gervais Nyangoma, former ambassador to the U.N., were also taken...
Nonetheless, these two 21-year-old and one 19-year-old have ploted since last spring to overthrow a whole way of life. Their banner reads "SEX," their creed is written on the circuits of a computer, and their initial organized uprising is called Operation Match...
...transmitter was swiftly captured and was soon pouring out communiqués in the name of the "30th of September Movement." It was a thrilling plotline: Untung had uncovered a "generals'" conspiracy to overthrow Sukarno during this week's scheduled celebration of Army Day. Behind the conniving generals, charged Untung, was the wily hand and dizzying wealth of the CIA. Radio Indonesia also announced the formation of a 45-man "Revolutionary Council," including some of the biggest names in the country, along with others that sounded as if they had been picked blindfold from...