Word: putsch
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...many heads of state doubted the propriety of attending it as guests of the new regime; others were frankly worried about their safety. Even before the coup, the nine former French African states had refused to come be cause of their antipathy to Red China and Ghana; after the putsch, nine Commonwealth African nations sent regrets. Several other leaders urged strongly that the conference be postponed...
Something strange had happened in Sofia. Rumors of a suicide in the Central Committee raced through the grim little capital. Had there been a plot against the government? A pro-Peking putsch, nipped in the bud by Russian agents? Or perhaps a pro-Tito rebellion aimed at making Bulgaria another "neutral" Yugoslavia...
...exposed as a lot of theorists... sorely lacking the capacity to carry out their dreams." The Action Francaise had organized publications, public meetings, a "party" structure that extended throughout France Known as the Camelots du Roi--but they lacked the "will to power." They were incapable of a Munich Putsch, much less a ten-year conspiracy to capture Parliamentary power. At the moment of reaction's greatest political triumphs in Europe, "French fascism" collapsed...
...rebel F.L.N. An Argoud specialty: exhibiting in the streets bodies of executed Moslem prisoners as a warning. After leaving Algeria, he grew a beard and shuttled anonymously between Italy, Germany and Switzerland. Argoud had already been sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the 1961 Generals' Putsch, and, as a member of the diehard Council of National Resistance, is believed to have ordered the attempted assassination of De Gaulle at Petit-Clamart, outside Paris, last year...
...joint chiefs of staff, and including General Nicolas Lindley López, 53, commander of Peru's army; Vice Admiral Juan Francisco Torres Matos, 56, boss of the navy; and General Pedro Vargas Prada, 49, chief of the air force. They struck only four months after a similar putsch in Argentina, with the military in both cases ending democracy because they did not like the outcome of free elections...