Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...factors influence the ups and downs of money marts, but when a country's currency is in strong demand for no apparent reason, it is often a signal to the shrewd Lebanese experts that someone is buying it up to send back home in order to finance a coup. Example: just before Abdul Karim Kassem took power in Iraq in 1958, the Iraqi dinar's price moved up sharply. The traffic goes the other way too: when the rich in a particular country get worried about impending trouble (for instance, before Nasser started nationalizing), they...
Sometimes "flight" money arrives just as agents start buying the same currency to finance a coup, and the two operations cancel each other out and keep the rate steady. But it is still possible to tell when something...
...SYRIA accounted for an influx of $40 million in Syrian pounds, of which only $6,000,000 was officially sanctioned to finance imports. The remaining millions are flight capital, set in motion by the resignation of Syria's No. 2 man, General Mohammed Omran, making another coup in coup-prone Syria (15 in the past 18 years) more likely. Syria's announcement of its intention to nationalize all oil resources added to the business community's edginess...
...customs and immigration affairs, maintain and jealously censor an independent cable and wireless network, and conduct external trade and finances through their own ministries. The tough, green-uniformed troopers of the People's Liberation Army-composed mostly of Communist-leaning hoodlums who had led the anti-Arab coup-still stalk the streets armed with Russian burp guns. They are backed by the 30-man Revolutionary council, a gang of malcontents led by Peking's pal Abdul Rahman Mohamed, better known as "Babu," probably East Africa's ugliest and brightest politician...
...Englanders know it simply as the "Messiah Society." The complete Messiah, in fact, was given its U.S. premiere (1818) by the society, as were many of the great choral works, including Haydn's Creation (1819), Handel's Solomon (1855) and Mendelssohn's Elijah (1848), a coup that was achieved only after the society's president sought out Mendelssohn in London and convinced him that Boston was culturally ready for the work...