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Cambodia 's second prime minister staged a successful coup against the country's first prime minister, wrecking Cambodia's experiment in democracy and its almost-completed peace pact with the Khmer Rouge.
On 30 September 1965, a group of army conspirators, who claimed they acted to prevent a possible coup against Sukarno, kidnapped and killed six army generals.
Sokal has delivered the coup de grace : a book-length exposé of the scientific ignorance of today's science bashers" (Heather MacDonald, the Wall Street Journal ). Others say the book overreaches.
It said the four-hour delay before the nation was told the outcome of the coup attempt may have been caused by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's refusal to resign as the army looked for a constitutional way to remove him.
Slate's editors must be credited for a journalistic coup.