Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greeting was not entirely accurate: Brazil's 131 million people had no direct voice in Neves' selection. Both the military, which had installed five army generals as President since a 1964 coup, and the departing President, Joao Figueiredo, insisted that the new leader be chosen by a 686-member electoral college made up of the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate and delegates from each of Brazil's 23 states. Despite that, Neves, the nominee of the opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, tallied 480 votes to 180 for the military-backed candidate of the ruling Democratic Social Party, Paulo Salin Maluf...
...colony absorbed by Ethiopia in 1962 during the rule of the late Emperor Haile Selassie. In the mid-1970s, the insurgents were joined in the struggle by Tigrean guerrillas demanding greater autonomy for their 25,400-sq.-mi. province. The insurgencies have intensified in the years since the 1974 coup against Haile Selassie that eventually brought Mengistu to power. The secessionist Eritreans, who number about 20,000, say they control 85% of the Eritrean countryside, while the Tigrean autonomy movement, also with an estimated 20,000 fighters, claims mastery of 90% of Tigre. The people of those areas have paid...
...with a fellow Colorado Party member by drawing first blood in a saber duel (legal in Uruguay under a 1920 law). He vowed last week as President to take a more conciliatory approach to Uruguay's problems. Said he: "Nobody has a mathematical method to prevent a new coup. The only way is to act maturely...
Nothing much happens in this gentle, acute, hugely affecting film from French Director Bertrand Tavernier (The Clockmaker, Coup de Torchon). Monsieur wakes, engages in a mild battle of wills with his sere housekeeper, dresses for the arrival of his son Gonzague (Michel Aumont). Gonzague's stern wife (Genevieve Mnich) lectures Monsieur fondly on his latest painting-"Put a cat on the divan; a cat is always nice"-and Monsieur replies with a smile that might be a wince. His two grandsons make an ordinary nuisance of themselves. His granddaughter, the lovely Mireille (Katia Wostrikoff), watches today's dinner...
...election was followed by a 1979 leftist coup, a bloody power struggle that resulted in an army takeover and the slaying of leftist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop on Oct. 19, 1983, six days later, there was a U.s. led invasion of the tiny, spice-producing nation...