Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, whatever the future difficulties, the Camp David accord brought peace between Israel and Egypt closer than at any time before, and that was a remarkable victory for Jimmy Carter, who had staked an inordinate amount of personal prestige on his ability to achieve a diplomatic coup that had seemed, in his own words before the Camp David talks began, a "remote" possibility. The extraordinary summit, confining two strong-willed opponents within a mountain retreat for a full fortnight, had been Carter's own idea. And by his mixture of idealism, tenacity and mastery of detail...
...long defended its independence by playing off ambitious foreign powers against one another. Now it is more deviously threatened as the Soviet Union attempts to become the dominant political force by offering increased trade and aid to its weak southern neighbor. The opportunity arose after April's bloody coup replaced the nepotistic regime of President Mohammed Daoud with the shakily neutralist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. If Soviet influence succeeds in vaulting the towering Hindu Kush mountains, Afghanistan would provide the Russians with windows south to troubled Iran and Pakistan, and beyond. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Lawrence Malkin, who covered...
...bulk of the Crimson's low scoring had come earlier, when Sullivan, Karla Amble, Therese Sellers and Linsley the senior turned in four sterling performances to set up the Minutemen -- Minutewomen? -- for the coup de grace...
...dance floor is the coup de grace of what is proving to be one of the more original--and expensive--rooms on campus. Kasper and his seven roommates have spent some $300 on materials such as wood, nails and plexiglas. This does not include the $2000 stereo with four large speakers that regularly blasts such tunes as "Space Cowboy" at odd hours of the day and night...
...Angola provides the most egregious example. The U.S. made a practical analysis that the Portuguese were in Africa to stay--that the national liberation movements lacked the military strength or political unity to defeat the Portuguese. It opted to support the Portuguese colonial presence in Africa until the coup in Portugal--in large part prompted by her failing military efforts in Africa--proved them wrong...