Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troubles, Mobutu seems politically safe for the moment. Signs of open discontent are quickly stifled. A ubiquitous network of informers tips off security police to complainers, who simply disappear. Mobutu regularly rotates military commanders to prevent coup-prone cliques from developing in the ranks. But falling standards of living (inflation is running around 50% a year)-which contrast with Mobutu's own conspicuously opulent tastes-could threaten his rule in the long...
...their own regimes depending on the incarceration of the opposition, killed it. Or when the credentials committee charged that the Chilean delegation represented a military dictatorship, and not the Chilean people, Moynihan added, "We have here a list of 45 military governments and 35 others installed by military coup. Let's look into them all." The committee responded by voting to drop the matter...
Even more importantly Moynihan has challenged the attempt by third world dictators to blame their domestic problems on the American people--a key strategy by which these despots seek to maintain power. In the past thirty years, third world left-wing dictatorships, often secured by military coup, have established heavily collectivized economies, made torture, censorship, and political oppression a part of everyday life, and virtually banished democracy and respect for individual rights. One result of this has been failing economies crushed under the weight of totalitarian socialism. Another has been political unrest generated by economic disaster and political oppression...
...Harvard Classics meanwhile are generally even closer to the big time. They scored their most recent coup by being picked by the New Hampshire Men's All Star Team, which includes two former NBA players, to play a preliminary game to a Celtic contest in the Boston Garden on March...
Portugal's aggressive comrades, on the other hand, have revived traditional Socialist fears about the ruthless Communist lust for power. Last November's abortive attempt at a coup cost Alvaro Cunhal's party both power and prestige, but the experience was too close a call for many a wary Socialist...