Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a coup in a country and the entering group is not democratic, Lodge said, "and if their actions are undertakes solely to enable their government to take is crack at is, the president to justified in aiding the country is possible...
...worth seeing again Latin American Films. A festival of films sponsored by the Chile Action Group, all of them dealing with revolutionary struggle in Latin America, starts this weekend at Emerson Hall. First film is The Promised Land, made by Chileans in the final days before the September 1973 coup, about a peasant rebellion in the 1930's and the doomed and legendary Jose Duran who led the movement. Proceeds from, the pictures will go to defending the Chilean people from their government...
...side," declared Uganda's dictator, General Idi Amin Dada, on the eve of a gigantic celebration to mark the fourth anniversary of the coup d 'état that had brought him to power. He added: "Even the most powerful witchcraft cannot hurt me." It is growing more and more difficult to gainsay Big Daddy. There have been at least a dozen known attempts to overthrow him, six in 1974 alone. But the burly Amin has somehow survived...
...immediately obvious heir. With Amin slated to become president of the 42-member Organization of African Unity in June, his neighbors are growing fidgety at the prospect. At least five African heads of state have quietly let it be known that they would support a coup against Amin, and at least three others that they are not at all opposed to the idea...
...last 20 years. Although Frank Cardullo, proprietor of Wursthaus and klatch-master of the Rinky Dinks, a club consisting of several Middlesex and Suffolk County judges and a handful of registrars, insists that the conversation is lighthearted political fun, it is widely held that DeGuiglielmo plotted the coup that would overthrew John Curry in 1966 and place himself in as city manager, while eating with friends at Wursthaus...