Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Carter's China policy the coup of the century or a peep into Pandora...
...shootout in the Kabul Hotel could turn out to be a major test for Afghan Strongman Taraki. Ever since the 61-year-old former leftist journalist seized power last April in a Soviet-backed coup, he has been pestered by mounting tribal and religious insurgency in the rugged eastern Afghan mountains. Now the rightist Muslim rebels, perhaps emboldened by the Shi'ite success in Iran, have shown they could strike close to home. The perverse tragedy of Spike Dubs was that guerrillas fighting a pro-Soviet regime had picked an American to show the world their rebellion...
...million Muslims who live mostly in the north have long chafed against the central government, which is dominated by black Christians from the south. A sputtering, 14-year-old war between the two sides ebbed last year after President Felix Malloum, a black who seized power in a 1975 coup, appointed a Muslim rebel leader, Hissene Habre, Premier. But last week fierce fighting between 1,000 guerrillas under Habre's command and Malloum's army erupted in Ndjamena, Chad's capital. Malloum's forces were routed, and he sought the protection of the 2,400-member...
FICTION: A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Nostalgia for the Present, Andrei Voznesensky ∙ The Coup, John Updike ∙ The Flounder, Gunter Grass ∙ The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever...
...Coup, Updike...