Word: coupe
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...Russians, on the other hand, have never pretended to happiness. So pollsters there prefer to plumb matters about which the Russians have some working knowledge -- like misery. Surveys reveal that a growing minority, now 14%, feel they would have been better off if the hard-line coup of 1991 had succeeded, 63% say they are sorry the Soviet Union collapsed and 72% believe life under capitalism is even more wretched than it was under communism. So depressed are the Russians that 27% confided to pollsters that they would be delighted to emigrate to Western Europe, even if it meant moving...
Until the last minute, JPL flight controllers hoped to pull off a similar coup with Observer. But none of the probe's backup systems responded to their electronic pleas, and after Wednesday there was little hope that a response would ever come. The problem, according to space experts, is that despite elaborate backup systems, space missions have become too complex to be made foolproof. Says John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University: "NASA should be doing smaller missions, more rapidly and with more limited objectives. Then if you lose one, you haven't lost everything...
Iran's interest in Sudan began after a fundamentalist-backed coup brought General Omar Hassan Bashir to power in 1989. Bashir immediately declared Sudan an Islamic state. Iran's President paid a call at the end of 1991, accompanied by his Defense and Intelligence ministers and the commander of the Revolutionary Guard. Reportedly, Iran agreed to provide Sudan with oil and technical aid in exchange for Sudanese livestock and wheat and promised to send Iranian Revolutionary Guards to train Sudanese Popular Defense Forces. U.S. officials say the Guards also offered instruction in subversion and guerrilla warfare for would-be terrorists...
Over and over, since Nigeria gained independence 33 years ago, the government has gyrated between short-lived civilian control and military regimes. From the day President Ibrahim Babangida, an army major general, seized power in a coup eight years ago, he promised an orderly return to democratic rule. He created two political parties and wrote their platforms: the Social Democratic Party tilted a bit to the left, the National Republican Convention leaned the same degree to the right. He handpicked their presidential candidates. But when Moshood Abiola, the millionaire industrialist candidate of the Social Democrats, won the election and insisted...
...Selig, who helped negotiate the plan, is the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers. He also is the de facto commissioner of baseball, named so by the owners after their coup of Vincent...