Word: un
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloodless takeover itself was un remarkable in a country which, during its 144-year history, has had 185 changes of government, mostly by coups. The ousted civilian President, Lawyer Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, was serving' as Vice President last April when President René Barrientos, the flamboyant ex-air chief, was killed in a helicopter crash. Ovando, the army chief and Barrientos' partner in the 1964 coup against Victor Paz Estenssoro, was in the U.S. at the time. Except for that fact, he almost certainly would have seized power then...
...that, Figueroa decided that it was time to get rid of the meddlesome may or. When Salto walked into his city hall office at high noon one day three weeks ago, he was greeted by a delegation from Viedma: Figueroa's Un dersecretary of Government, Provincial Police Chief Antonio Aller and a no tary public who, Salto was told, had just been sworn in as the new mayor...
...scenario was rewritten last spring, when the Communists mounted an un precedented monsoon offensive, captured the town of Muong Soui and threatened to drive all the way to the Mekong River. Now the scenario has been modified further. In an operation launched amidst extraordinary secrecy early this month, Royal Laotian troops mounted a two-pronged attack against the Plain of Jars in the northeast, and against Communist units guarding the Ho Chi Minh Trail in central Laos. Last week, for the first time in five years, government forces were in control of part of the broad Plain of Jars...
...Just before De Gaulle returned to power, an editorial in a small provincial newspaper complained about France's fascination with diminutives. "Everybody wants his petite maison, his petit jardin, his petite femme, and finally his petite retraite," it said. "At this rate we will surely end up as un petit peuple." Part of De Gaulle's magic lay in his ability to lift his countrymen from such petty aspirations -and from such deep self-doubt. Now both appear to be returning more distressingly than ever. No one believes that France, the revolutionary birthplace of modern democracy, has lost...
...wooden architecture of the north. It is a land of forests, and its builders developed an unexcelled skill in fashioning wood. Confronted by the domes and cupolas imported from Byzantium, they adapted these masonry-based forms to an idiom of carpentry that produced a unique style, unmatchable and now un-copyable because it depends on a craftsmanship that no longer exists...