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Since the coup, the club has decided to use a more remote route through Kazakhstan, which borders Kyrgyzstan, which will allow them to avoid Bishek. American authorities in Kyrgyzstan will also be aware of the expedition’s presence...
...resistance, and the entire nation became entranced by the hypnotic potion of ball after ball flying out of the shrunken cathedrals. By the time the final campaign concluded in 2001, reaching a plateau of terror (the number 73 still triggers nightmares) unheard of in modern history, the bloody coup was already completed. Hitters and their home runs had sole control over the realm, and nobody dared believe that any group would arise to free baseball from the stranglehold of the sluggers...
...Houphouët-Boigny's uncontested bid for a sixth five-year term as President. In Liberia (pop. 2 million), however, opposition politicians continue to allege fraud in the recent balloting that President Samuel K. Doe, a former army sergeant who first came to power in a 1980 coup, says gave him a popular mandate...
...guns in a full-scale battle with government troops. Soon after the fighting began, former Army Commander General Thomas Quiwonkpa announced on the radio that he had overthrown President Samuel K. Doe, 33, whom he accused of corruption and brutality. That evening, however, Doe assured his countrymen that the coup attempt had failed, although Quiwonkpa was still at large...
Five years ago, Quiwonkpa helped Doe seize power in a bloody coup against President William Tolbert. But the young President distrusted his former comrade and dismissed him from his army post. Last month presidential elections were held; despite widespread reports of voting fraud, Doe imperiously declared himself the winner. At week's end the President announced that Quiwonkpa had been spotted near the radio station and shot dead. Quiwonkpa's bullet-riddled body was displayed at the army barracks where he once had an office. NICARAGUA Beyond the Diplomatic Pale...