Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iran, since a coup restored Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to his throne in 1953, says the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, human rights violations, including torture, "are alleged to have taken place on an unprecedented scale." Estimates of the number of political prisoners range from 25,000 to 100,000; it is widely believed most of them have been tortured by the SAVAK, secret police, which French lawyer Jean Michel Braunschweig, who investigated conditions in Iran last January, claims has 20,000 members and a network of some 180,000 paid informers. The country's repertory of tortures...
...collusion with Nairobi to invite Amin's overthrow? No, said British officials, pointing out that if Amin were toppled now even more extremist soldiers would probably take over, and Uganda could be plunged into another bloodletting. Nevertheless, given the way matters have been going in Uganda, a coup cannot be ruled...
...then by the United States. A great believer in America's original goals in Vietnam, Fraser will be a close friend of any rigid Republican administration. (He is so pro-American that anti-mainstream columnist Alexander Cockburn claimed last year that Fraser arrived in power through a CIA-sponsored coup...
Ever fearful of the kind of lightning coup with which he, as armed forces commander, ousted Milton Obote from the presidency in 1971, Amin often moves about under tight guard-usually trusted mercenaries who are themselves watched by a troop of undercover enforcers known as the Public Research Unit. Amin has survived at least eight assassination attempts, including one last month, when grenades were tossed at his car as he left Kampala's police headquarters. His driver was killed and 37 bystanders were injured but Amin was barely scratched, probably confirming his belief that "God is on my side...
...with abnormally thin shells that broke during brooding; as a result, the numbers of ospreys, peregrine falcons, bald eagles and brown pelicans were declining. These revelations were followed by the publication in 1962 of Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, which began to crystallize anti-insecticide sentiment. But the coup de gráce was administered by later studies showing that DDT could cause cancer in laboratory animals. Deciding that the compound was a hazard to humans, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered DDT sales to be restricted in 1972 and banned its use in the U.S. except in cases of sudden...