Word: coupe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President was not behaving at all like a lame duck. While López Portillo was busy campaigning, the mercurial "Don Luis" continued working an 18-hour day-fueling rumors spread by his conservative critics that he intended to stay in power, possibly by means of a military coup. His last major act as President was a political shocker. Charging that wealthy landlords had violated Mexican law by masking their holdings under relatives' names, Echeverria two weeks ago ordered that 243,000 acres in Sonora's lush, irrigated Yaqui valley, worth about $80 million, be handed over...
...lunatic of Libya." The CIA, TIME has learned, commissioned a secret psychological profile, which suggested that he was sound of mind. Nonetheless, Libya's mercurial strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 34, has given leaders everywhere plenty of reason to worry since he took power in a 1969 military coup. With the country's approximately $10 billion in annual revenues, mostly from oil, the ascetic, fanatically religious Gaddafi has become, among other things, one of the world's foremost backers of terrorism and insurrection. Pursuing a dream of a Libyan-led Islamic sphere of influence, he has fomented...
Anderson may have a couple of other intentions: to score a public relations coup for his company and acquire a direct pipeline to Britain's ruling elite. Founded in 1791, the Observer has published some well-known British writers -George Orwell, Arnold Toynbee and, posthumously, Evelyn Waugh-and taken a few risks along the way. The paper was persecuted by the Crown for reporting the secret trial of the Cato Street conspirators in 1820, and alienated many readers by denouncing the British invasion of Suez...
...Brazil goes," said an animated Richard Nixon in 1971, "so will the rest of the Latin American continent." Indeed, since its 1964 coup set the stage for a wave of military takeovers on the continent, Brazil has been regarded as the center of gravity of South American politics...
Geisel's tentative liberalization policies may have been partly responsible for a decision last week of General Augusto Pinochet's Chilean junta to release 304 political prisoners held without charge since the 1973 coup...