Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many Greeks, the conservative Caramanlis has served as a comforting balance to the leftist Papandreou. With Caramanlis in power, they reasoned, Papandreou could never enact his party's "strategic targets," which include withdrawing from NATO and closing down all U.S. bases in Greece. "It was a coup de theatre, in total disrespect for accepted political practices," said a stunned Greek newspaper editor...
...President Kennedy shrewdly appointed him Ambassador to South Viet Nam, in part to maintain Republican support for U.S. policy there. Only 13 weeks later, Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown and subsequently slain. Though various accounts linked the U.S. to the coup against the recalcitrant Diem, Lodge always maintained that he had done nothing either to "stimulate or thwart" the overthrow. Lodge resigned in 1964, took part in the presidential election campaign and then returned to Saigon, becoming involved in a peace effort that ultimately failed. He continued to field diplomatic assignments for many more years...
Almost from the moment he seized power in a military coup in 1977, Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq has been assuring his countrymen that he wanted nothing so much as to call free elections and restore his country to a democratic system. He finally got around to staging a referendum last December in which Pakistani voters were invited to say whether they endorsed Zia's program of Islamization and in effect whether they wanted him to continue as President. About 98% of those who voted said they...
...danger is real. In 1980 General Luis Garcia Meza seized control of Bolivia in what came to be called the Cocaine Coup. One of his first acts was to release drug mafiosos from jail. He proceeded to have the police records of cocaine traffickers destroyed and to punish those who disagreed with his policy. His army meanwhile pocketed millions of dollars in bribes and payoffs from drug dealers. In despair, local U.S. drug enforcers closed their office. As soon as Siles brought back democracy in 1982, however, the fight against drugs resumed. The DEA reopened its office and President Reagan...
...different kind of parliamentary system, the result would have assured the N.K.D.P. a powerful position in the 276-member assembly. The party won 50 seats to the ruling party's 88. But under a complex electoral system introduced by President Chun, who seized power in a military coup in 1979, a disproportionate share of a bloc of 92 nonelective assembly seats goes to the overall winner, with the balance divided among other contending groups. Thus, in the new assembly, the D.J.P. will control 149 seats to the N.K.D.P.'s 67. The real base of power remains in the President...