Word: coupe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ousted civilian Contra leaders compared the action to a coup...
...continuing exchange of recriminations about the failed coup against Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, the Bush Administration last week loudly accused Congress of trying to micromanage intelligence matters. At the same time, however, a National Security Council review indicates that if anyone was micromanaging, it was the President, who picked up some unhealthy habits during his year as President Ford's CIA director...
...President, he continues the practice; much undigested and conflicting intelligence from Panama was "stovepiped" straight to the Chief Executive and his top aides, bypassing lower-level experts who would normally sort it out. Some Bush aides now admit privately that this practice confused the U.S. response to the Panamanian coup. The compartmentalization of information, says one senior Administration official, is "a destructive trait in any President. The information the President has is not shared with enough people to allow him to head off bad ideas...
Despite these conclusions, the Administration is using the furor over Panama to seek more leeway to assist a coup that, while not intended to kill Noriega or another foreign leader, might wind up doing just that. At the same time, Bush last week assured the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that he would give it "timely notice" of covert actions, at least within a matter of days (in contrast to the ten months that Ronald Reagan once took...
...biggest change is psychological. For the first time since the murderous clown-President Idi Amin took over the government in a 1971 coup, Ugandans can walk the streets without fear. "I still have no glass in my windows, and I can't afford sugar for my tea," says Adam Mayanja, 48, who returned to his 32-acre coffee farm north of Kampala three years ago. "But I sleep at night. There is peace and I am free...