Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they had rounded up 7,000 men and led them, handcuffed or with hands behind their heads, to dark green military buses that took them to a nearby soccer stadium for interrogation. The scene was an eerie reminder of the mass arrests that occurred in the wake of the coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, 68, to power in 1973, which has been depicted in the 1982 film Missing. Although the majority of those rounded up last week were later released, at least 227 remained in detention along with 312 others banished for 90 days to remote camps...
...American public, the Hinckley acquittal became the symbol of excessive, and indulged, violence. To Caplan it is neither a judicial coup or rallying point, just a necessary working of an inviolate standard. Administration fingers, tinkering with the defense, will only reveal an injudicious strong...
...witness." The informant introduced FBI Special Agent Eduardo M. Sanchez to the plotters, who hired him as the assassin. In addition to a $300,000 fee and 22 lbs. of cocaine, the conspirators promised Sanchez weapons, night-vision equipment, explosives, tanks, airplanes and miscellaneous military ordnance for the proposed coup. The agent was instructed to hire four other hitmen to help carry out the assassination...
...meantime the FBI, suffering from a spate of bad publicity-the acquittal of Auto Magnate John De Lorean on drug-trafficking charges, revelations that the bureau had been slow to detect alleged espionage by one of its counterintelligence officers-was elated by the Honduran coup busting. "We want to make it clear that the full resources of the FBI will be devoted to preventing terrorist acts like those disclosed today," said Director William Webster. At his family farm 50 miles outside Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, President Suazo was being guarded by 800 Honduran soldiers...
McPherson also lambasted Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam for spending more than $100 million two months ago to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the coup that brought his government to power. Mengistu, he claimed, was "not especially interested" in feeding his starving millions...