Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fall revolt, and more arrests were expected to follow last week's report. To make room for the leftists, the government of moderate Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo has quietly released nearly all of the political prisoners who were rounded up after the abortive rightist coup of March 1975. Even some 200 former agents of Caetano's hated secret police, PIDE, have been released, as has former Interior Minister César Moreira Baptista, under whom they operated...
...reliable and less frank." Says Richard Lyman, president of Stanford University: "Letters of recommendation, one suspects, have long been subject to a debasement of the coinage. And how-the drive to make them freely available to the persons about whom they are written seems perfectly designed to administer the coup...
Remaining pieces, Kimi Okada's tap dance "Hit or Miss" and Pam Quinn's "A Coup from the Blues," return to beat and music and the exuberant physicality of dance. Yet, set against the style of The Polish Mime Ballet Theater, these two works preserve an American earnestness, steering clear of overmuch theatricality--or sensuality...
...bucks a whack to have a look at somebody who is a movie star, who is a bigger-than-life image." Do they get their money's worth? "They want to see me out of curiosity. When I deliver a performance, I think that's the coup...
Chorus of Abuse. Some of the recent attacks on Nasser also challenge his revolutionary credentials. In an al Akhbar article, former Socialist Leader Ahmed Hussein charges that on the night of the anti-Farouk coup, Nasser, then a lieutenant colonel, donned civilian clothes and was sitting in his auto ready to escape if the revolt failed. Only when success seemed assured did he join his fellow officers...