Word: putsch
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...many Spaniards are beginning to wonder just who won that fateful encounter. Far from being totally discredited after the coup, the country's ultra-conservative armed forces-unchanged and unbending since Francisco Franco's day-seem hardly affected. "Zero percent of the people here believe that the putsch failed," says a moderate politician in Madrid. "Some think it is still going on, and many believe it actually succeeded...
Madrid's post-putsch euphoria has faded fast...
...this explosive atmosphere, the new Prime Minister, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, chose to proceed as if he were walking through a minefield-which he was. To assert civilian control over restive soldiers, Calvo-Sotelo had to crack down on the known conspirators, but not so hard as to trigger another putsch. To remove the roots of discontent in the armed forces, he also needed to show rapid progress in curbing the Basque separatist terrorists, whose bloody attacks against the paramilitary Guardia Civil and police had inflamed the franquista officers. Here too, Calvo-Sotelo had a problem...
...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...
...prominent Sedwick family of Boston, explaining part of his passion for New England. The strapping German's influence waned in party circles as the Nazis became stronger, although he was still a close personal friend of Hitler, who fled to Hanfy's country villa after the infamous Beer Hall Putsch...