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...based in Jordan. Wifaq's 80 to 100 members included several prominent former Iraqi army officers and onetime officials of Saddam's regime. Its objective was to penetrate Saddam's elite Republican Guard, but the group was infiltrated by his agents. Last June, Saddam got wind of a Wifaq coup plan and ordered organization members seized in Baghdad. By July, at least several dozen plotters had been executed, and as many as 2,000 suspects were held and presumably tortured before some were released...
Wilson's decision to move from the University of Chicago to Harvard made headlines across the nation. Wilson--whom Gates calls the "coup of coups"--cited two reasons for the move: Harvard's brain trust of African American thinkers and its politically connected halls...
Digitas leaders say the program has been a public relations coup. Aside from the student computing group's own postering in the Science Center and the Yard, the Freshman Dean's Office announced its availability in the Yard Bulletin...
...cooperation and betrayal want independence but fight each other more ferociously than anyone else. As the overseer of the Kurd safe haven established after the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. is only tangentially involved, its main interest in the messy struggle being to provide a counterweight--or deliver a coup de grace--against Saddam. Handed an engraved invitation to regain some power in his own northern territory, Saddam saw his opportunity and took...
...years for participation in mutiny. The landmark decision puts a cap on an era of corruption and oligarchical politics that had gripped the country throughout the 1980's. The two convicted men were boyhood friends who rose through the military and as generals staged a coup in 1979, placing Chun into the presidency. Six months later, Chun ordered a brutal crackdown of pro-democracy uprisings in the Kwang-ju province. The police action left some 200 dead, and Kwang-ju became a rallying cry for Korean dissidents. Roh succeeded Chun in 1988 and ruled until the current civilian president...