Word: coupe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western Europe pursues the promise of a more prosperous and safer era, the recent past seems impossibly remote. Only a few years ago, the area's decline seemed assured. Euro-Communists loomed large, Spain's infant democracy was threatened by a military coup, and terrorists operated so boldly that a former Italian Prime Minister was kidnaped and murdered. West Europeans seemed trapped in a twilight zone of economic entropy and declining international influence. After the deep OPEC-induced recession that ushered in the 1980s, millions of workers remained sidelined, victims of an affliction dubbed Eurosclerosis -- a hardening of the business...
Before long Hitler was dragged before a court. He and his fellow Nazis had attempted an armed coup in Munich; when it failed, the instigators were imprisoned. Here at last was the longed-for martyrdom, and Hitler seized it. Up to now, events had formed the leader: Germany's humiliating loss of the Great War, the Allies' insistence on reparations, the monstrous inflation, the centuries-old distrust of Jewish professionals and merchants. From here on, the leader would create the events...
...actually made an abortive attempt to seize Austria in 1934, when some 150 SS men dressed in Austrian army uniforms burst into the Chancellery in Vienna and shot down Conservative Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. That was supposed to be the start of a Nazi coup, but Justice Minister Kurt von Schuschnigg rallied the police and had the assassins arrested. Italy, which had guaranteed Austrian independence, mobilized four divisions on the frontier. Hitler backed down. By 1938, however, he had built a threatening army and had won the support of Italy's Mussolini (they had signed a secret protocol in 1936 creating...
...hate him, John Silber is impossible to ignore. The spotlight of controversy seems to seek him out. Earlier this year he was in the headlines with an audacious fund-raising plan to take out life-insurance policies on students and alumni. In May, Silber scored a double coup over neighboring + Harvard by playing host to Presidents George Bush and Francois Mitterrand of France at B.U.'s graduation exercises. Next month Silber's precedent-setting experiment at running the troubled public schools of Chelsea, Mass., gets under way in the glare of national publicity. And in a forthcoming book called Straight...
...ruling junta, which has changed the nation's name to Myanmar to reflect the country's ethnic diversity, the main target is the National League for Democracy, the first organized, broad-based movement dedicated to democratic reform since Ne Win came to power in a 1962 military coup. In recent weeks, hundreds in the N.L.D.'s upper echelons have been jailed. Its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is under house arrest, where she began a hunger strike on July 20 that reportedly ended just last week...