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Word: coupes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hearing of the violence, President Carter got on the telephone to President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and told him that Pakistan was responsible for the Americans' safety. Zia, who seized power in a coup 2½ years ago and whose regime has been facing stiff resistance, said he had been doing what he could, but he proved reluctant to use real force against the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Flames Engulf the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...players are returning from last year's 11-2 squad. In addition. Barnaby has bolstered the lineup Lisa Harrison and Jackie Corrigan Perhaps the biggest coup, however, is the return of versatile Satah Mleczko. Mleczko is one of Harvard's finest athletes, but she chose to sit out last season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson to Take the Court | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

...within the Chinese hierarchy by the backers of Teng-hsiao Ping, who was intrigued by the massive test-administering bureaucracy he saw when he visited the U.S. Hua Kuo-feng is a known foe of SATS, and the establishment of the tests in China may foreshadow a coming Teng coup to topple him from power...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Peking's Biggest Test | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...strike called by the million-member Bolivian Central Labor Federation (COB). The death toll might have been higher had Natusch not stationed troops at the mines outside the capital to prevent militant workers from following their usual practice of heading for La Paz with satchels of dynamite whenever a coup takes place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Next: No. 189? | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Seeking to keep that notion alive, the Foreign Ministers of the other Andean countries issued a statement expressing their "confidence" that Bolivia would soon return to "democratic and harmonious national comity." The only way to achieve that may be Coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Next: No. 189? | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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