Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expatriates should not be expected to return to, nor should American universities train physicians for a government that, since its inception in 1953 in the wake of a CIA-sponsored coup, has been run as a dictatorship. For the Med School to do so would mean ignoring Iran's 70,000 member secret police force, which keeps tight control on political action and education, spreading its web tight enough to include at least one agent in every university classroom. It would mean denying the 25,000 political prisoners now in Iran. It would mean justifying the use of torture...
Diplomatic Coup. South African Defense Minister Pieter W. Botha insisted that his troops could hold their own against the M.P.L.A.'s powerful Soviet weaponry. Significantly, Botha did not rule out the possibility of "an understanding" with the Luanda government. The South Africans are anxious to avoid a battle around the $300 million Cunene complex, in which they have heavily invested. The project, which is scheduled to begin producing power next year, is the key to industrial and agricultural development of the disputed territory of South West Africa (also known as Namibia). Under the original plan for Cunene, which...
...height of its triumphal victory march last week, the M.P.L.A. also scored a notable diplomatic coup when the Organization of African Unity recognized Neto's regime as Angola's sole legitimate government. Uganda President Idi Amin, who is chairman of the O.A.U., praised the move shortly after his own country became the 26th member of the organization to recognize the M.P.L.A. Last month an O.A.U. summit meeting in Addis Ababa was deadlocked 22 to 22 on the question of recognizing the M.P.L.A. It now seems probable that Portugal, which transferred power jointly to the three liberation movements under...
...investigation into the suicide of United Chairman Eli Black, who swung his briefcase to smash a hole in a window of his office on the 44th floor of New York City's Pan Am Building and then jumped to his death. The disclosure helped bring on a Honduran coup that overthrew the government of President Oswaldo López Arellano...
...three years ago, to suffer the disadvantages--real or imagined--of Quad life, in order that they may enjoy its one important benefit: a normal distribution of men and women ("Quad Spirit" being but a result of this.) Now they stand to lose this advantage, apres coup...