Word: putsch
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Although a military putsch is definitely at, there may well be one last violent attempt at a general revolution by the conservatives both in France and Algeria, he maintained...
...Viet Nam. Its own government has little real popular backing (no government has in backward Laos, where there are few roads or telephones and no national newspaper). It is not strong enough or sophisticated enough to resist if Communists should worm their way into the Cabinet and attempt a Putsch...
...Austria, the army took five arrested Tudeh members from their cells and shot them. An "unofficial" source explained that the executions were designed to be an object lesson to plotters who might have been thinking that the Shah's absence would be an opportune moment for a Putsch...
Putzi, as the piano-playing Hanfstaengl was called, had been a supporter of Hitler from before the 1923 putsch and became the Fuehrer's "court jester" until he fled Germany...
...locksmith who has been First Secretary of the Czech Communist Party since 1953. In a departure from the post-Stalin taboo against party leaders' taking government posts, Novotny kept his party job. But, like all the other changes inflicted on the nation by the Communists since the 1948 Putsch, this one caused hardly a ripple in docile, beaten Czechoslovakia...