Word: coupe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...church -- both of which existed in the Philippines when Ferdinand Marcos was deposed -- the party and the 163,000-troop Burmese army it controls have a virtual monopoly on political power. The likelihood is that any new leadership will be drawn from the military. If the army engineers a coup, chances are that the move will be led by younger officers, men in their late 40s who are unlikely to take a favorable view of the party's policies. Explains Kiryu: "Those in their 60s and older, who experienced foreign colonial control, understand the Burmese Way to Socialism...
Although Allende won the presidential elections of 1970 by a democratic vote, the United States, allegedly through the work of the CIA, supported the coup of 1973. Fifteen years later, Pinochet still rules and maintains "order" in Chile. Not once has President Reagan singled out Pinochet's regime as being a threat to democracy...
Give Ferdinand Marcos credit for trying. The deposed President of the Philippines has attempted everything from flattery to pleas for sympathy to plotting a coup d'etat. But Marcos' successor, Corazon Aquino, has blocked all his maneuvers to return home. So Marcos, 70, is trying a new tactic. According to intermediaries, he has offered to turn over $5 billion, enough to pay nearly 20% of the country's foreign debt, if Aquino will change her mind. Although she reportedly rejected the proposed deal, Aquino at one point challenged Marcos: "Send the $5 billion, and then we will talk...
...authority has rarely been in doubt since he took power as part of an unopposed army coup in 1962. In 1973 his Burmese Way to Socialism became constitutional doctrine when the country officially proclaimed itself a socialist republic. In 1981 Ne Win handed the country's presidency over to San Yu but retained power as party chairman...
...same actors. The high point is Cymbeline, with its Spielbergian supernatural touches (ghosts appearing in dreams, Jupiter descending from the heavens) and robust battles. In one chilling scene, two panels of the back wall bang open to reveal opposing armies about to pour onto the stage. The most impressive coup de theatre, however, belongs to Star Tim Pigott-Smith, a specialist in complex villains. He invades the bedroom of a sleeping princess, robs and molests her while voicing a cascading confusion of emotions -- first pride, then shame, then lust, then greed -- with the naked horror of a man facing...