Word: putsch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Madrid's post-putsch euphoria has faded fast...
...more beleaguered he feels, the more imperiously Menachem Begin behaves. In trumpeting his accomplishments, he implied that the election of a Labor government would be tantamount to handing over the West Bank to the Palestine Liberation Organization. He complained of a "putsch atmosphere" created by civilian protesters against his government's policies. After Arab students at Israeli universities began wearing T shirts proclaiming their support of the P.L.O., Begin threatened to expel them. The students, as it happens, are Israeli citizens who enjoy the constitutional guarantees of free speech...