Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brae Burn, Hagen had caught Mike Brady from behind and needed to sink an eight foot putt on the final green to win outright. Before he putted, however, Hagen demanded that Brady come out of the clubhouse before he administered the coup de grace...
...Bompensiero telephoned that night, but they know one of his callers fingered him for execution. The old man was an easy target. As he walked away from the phone booth toward his home, he was dropped by a .22-cal. slug that entered his neck near the spine. The coup de grâce was a second shot near the right ear. No shots were heard...
...years, he played the key role in organizing the Israeli Defense Forces, developed the nation's arms industry and nuclear-research program. He traveled abroad constantly to purchase arms and conduct delicate military negotiations. Peres quickly acquired a reputation as a canny, effective and realistic bargainer. His great coup came in 1955, when he brought off the Franco-Israeli military alliance, involving more than $1 billion in arms purchases from France that made possible the Israeli victories...
...fight against terrorism is far from over. Since the coup, 1,700 leftist guerrillas and 124 soldiers and police have died in what the military calls "the dirty war." The government has virtu ally wiped out one major terrorist group, the leftist Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (E.R.P.). The other large guerrilla network is the Montoneros, who are also leftists with Peronist sympathies; most of their top leaders have been killed or captured, but they can still launch spectacular bombings, kidnapings and murders. One Shootout last week took place at Buenos Aires' evening rush hour, near the Supreme...
...army's methods of countering terror are brutal. In a scathing report last month, Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group, accused the military of arbitrary detention, torture, summary executions and the "disappearance" of at least 500 suspects since the coup. Amnesty charges that many of the desaparecidos were innocent citizens abducted and murdered by soldiers and police in mufti; victims' bodies have turned up "at the bottom of lakes, decomposing in rubbish heaps or blown to pieces in quarries...