Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ongoing squabble over which school in the oldest in America, Manhattan's Collegiate School has just pulled a coup by adding 10 years...
According to the report, at least 8,961 people disappeared during those years, many of the victims vanishing after the military took power in a 1976 coup. Large numbers were tortured to death in "subhuman" makeshift centers that lacked ventilation, plumbing and other amenities, where jailers used methods, such as prolonged outdoor burial up to the neck, that were "unknown in other parts of the world." Alfonsin thanked the commission for its "hard, painful, heroic work" but did not indicate whether he would prosecute or even release the names of those accused of the crimes. The 60,000 citizens...
...made it to Addis Ababa, where the flag flying over Revolution Square had more comforting look: red and emblazoned with the hammer and sickle. Honecker was in the Ethiopian capital with Soviet Politburo Member Grigory Romanov at a three-hour parade to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the military coup that overthrew former Emperor Haile Selassie. Dominating the scene was a towering portrait of Ethiopian Leader Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, 43, the U.S.-trained soldier who had just been chosen Secretary-General of the Workers Party of Ethiopia, the newly inaugurated Communist party...
Axelrod said he plans to make the broadcasts a habit, explaining that "tomorrow it will just be louder self, expression. By the end of the year it's a coup d'etat...
DIED. Muhammad Naguib, 83, Egyptian army officer who in 1952 became the country's first President and, briefly, a national hero after a bloodless coup toppled King Farouk; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Cairo. A hero of Egypt's 1948 war with Israel, Naguib was recruited to lead a movement of dissident younger officers, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat, aimed at ending the monarchy; after the revolution Naguib was named commander in chief of the armed forces and, later, Prime Minister and President. But he soon ran afoul of Nasser; in 1954 he was forced...