Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that Britain is trying to moderate Welsh nationalist demands. Callaghan suggested a visit instead to the ancestral home of George Washington near the coal town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Prime Minister felt that taking the President on a tour of the Labor stronghold would be a political coup that would help his hard-pressed party...
...death and destruction to millions of people around the world, teaching them to hate and fear the U.S. Among other things, Kissinger can be held responsible for the expansion of the Indochina War into Cambodia in 1970, the Christmas carpet bombing of Vietnam in 1972 and the CIA-supported coup in Chile...
...Bhutto's resignation, 2) dissolution of the National Assembly, 3) new elections, under the supervision of the army, and 4) restoration of civil liberties. Bhutto not only rejected their demands but also had most opposition leaders arrested. Last week he accused them of trying to stage a "civilian coup d'etat." Askeijl if he would resign, he replied: "Why should I? I am legally, politically and morally Prime Minister of Pakistan. The people are with...
...People's Almanac was a publishing coup brought off by Irving and David last year. While most reference books go on the shelf, this one was off the wall. Its 1,478 pages included biographies of comic-book characters, every obscure fact and factoid that could be assembled-and a series of unique lists ("15 renowned redheads," "nine breeds of dog that bite the most"). It was this section that proved the Almanac's most popular category...
...Arriba España!" (Up with Spain! the old nationalist rallying cry), rode through Madrid in an auto caravan of their own. Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Franco's former Information and Tourism Minister and leader of the powerful rightist party Alianza Popular, thundered, "What has happened is an authentic coup d 'état that has transformed reform into rupture...